How to install Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is easy to install and configure. You just need to remember a few keyboard shortcuts.

• Download the latest .deb file of VSCode from here.

• VSCode is being developed rapidly and new releases appear frequently. If you have an older version of VSCode, uninstall it first:

$ sudo apt remove code

• Install the downloaded VSCode:

$ sudo dpkg -i vscode-you-downloaded.deb

• Start in a root directory of your code:

$ code .

• VSCode will start up using all the files and directories inside the current directory as belonging to a project. While it is indexing the files, you will see a red flame icon in bottom-right corner. Once the flame goes away, you are ready to edit files!

• Extensions: VSCode is no fun without extensions for your favorite languages (say C++ or Python) or your favorite features (say Vim). To install extensions use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+P and type ext install. You can search and install extensions from the VSCode Marketplace. Many extensions might restart VSCode to get enabled.

• Settings: VSCode can handle both user settings (works across all projects) and workspace settings (works only for a particular project). All settings are set in JSON files. You can choose File → Preferences to open these. To set something, you need to copy that line from default settings to settings.json.

Tried with: Visual Studio Code 1.4 and Ubuntu 16.04