Microsoft’s Visual Studio is its primary development environment, delivering end-to-end support for the application development lifecycle. It’s a powerful tool, but it remains dependent on Windows and it can be overkill for many development tasks. That’s where Visual Studio Code comes in.
Able to run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, exceedingly extensible, with excellent support for remote development, Visual Studio Code fills many of the gaps in Microsoft’s developer story. It’s still a quick and easy tool to use, but has come to transcend its original role as a programmer’s editor. Now, with the arrival of Microsoft’s C# Dev Kit, Visual Studio Code becomes a viable alternative to Visual Studio for .NET development.
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