Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio
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Visual Studio Code
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseApril 29, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-29)
Stable release
1.96.4[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 17 January 2025
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Repository
Written in
ARM64
Size
  • Windows: 93–97 MB
  • Linux: 89–137 MB
  • macOS: 127–217 MB
Available in15 languages
List of languages
English (US), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Czech[3]
TypeIntegrated development environment
LicenseProprietary freeware[4][5] based on open-source project[6][7]
Websitecode.visualstudio.com Edit this on Wikidata

Visual Studio Code, commonly referred to as VS Code,

intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded version control with Git. Users can change the theme, keyboard shortcuts, preferences, and install extensions
that add functionality.

Visual Studio Code is

MIT licensed program named "Visual Studio Code — Open Source" (also known as "Code — OSS"), also created by Microsoft and available through GitHub.[11]

In the 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, out of 58,121 responses, 73.6% of respondents reported using Visual Studio Code, more than twice the percentage of respondents who reported using its nearest text editor and/or IDE alternative, Visual Studio.[12]

History

Visual Studio Code was first announced on April 29, 2015 by Microsoft at the 2015

preview build was released shortly thereafter.[13]

On November 18, 2015, the project "Visual Studio Code — Open Source" (also known as "Code — OSS"), on which Visual Studio Code is based, was released under the open-source MIT License and made available on GitHub.[11]

Extension support was also announced.

public preview stage and was released to the web.[15]

Features

Visual Studio Code is a source-code editor that can be used with a variety of programming languages, including C, C#, C++, Fortran, Go, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, Rust, and Julia.[16][17][18][19][20] Visual Studio Code employs the same editor component (codenamed "Monaco") used in Azure DevOps (formerly called "Visual Studio Online" and "Visual Studio Team Services").[21]

The downloadable version of Visual Studio Code is built on the

Blink layout engine. Visual Studio Code for the Web is a browser-based version of the editor that can be used to edit both local files and remote repositories (on GitHub and Microsoft Azure) without installing the full program.[23] It is officially supported and hosted by Microsoft and can be accessed at vscode.dev
.

Out of the box, Visual Studio Code includes basic support for most common programming languages. This basic support includes

IntelliSense for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, CSS, and HTML, as well as debugging support for Node.js. Support for additional languages can be provided by freely available extensions on the VS Code Marketplace.[24]

Instead of a project system, it allows users to open one or more directories, which can then be saved in workspaces for future reuse. This allows it to operate as a language-agnostic code editor for any language. It supports many programming languages and a set of features that differ per language. Unwanted files and folders can be excluded from the project tree via settings. Many Visual Studio Code features are not exposed through menus or the user interface but can be accessed via the command palette.[25] The command palette is able to execute virtually every feature the graphical interface supports, making it very keyboard-accessible.[26]

Visual Studio Code can be extended via

static code analysis, and add code linters using the Language Server Protocol.[29]

pull requests
directly from the Visual Studio Code program.

Visual Studio Code collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve the product. This telemetry feature can be disabled.[30] The information contained in this telemetry data can be inspected by the public, since the product is open source.[31]

Insiders

An orange version of the Visual Studio Code logo
Visual Studio Code Insiders logo

A

nightly build
called Visual Studio Code Insiders is also available. Its configuration, including any settings, extensions, themes are completely separate from the standard build. This enables side-by-side installation of both builds without any interference.

Reception

In the 2016 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Visual Studio Code ranked 13th among the top popular development tools, with only 7% of the 47,000 respondents using it.[32] Two years later, Visual Studio Code rose to the no. 1 spot, with 35% of the 75,000 respondents using it.[33] Since then Visual Studio Code has retained the no. 1 spot, with the percentage of respondents reporting using it increasing to 50% in 2019,[34] 74.5% in 2021,[35] 74.48% in 2022,[36] 73.71% in 2023,[37] and 73.6% in 2024.[38] (The 2020 Developers Survey did not cover integrated development environments.[39])

CEC-IDE controversy

On June 20, 2023, during the

Guangdong Province's Digital Government Innovation Development Forum held in Guangzhou, CEC-IDE was released and described as the first Chinese-produced integrated development tool.[40][41] However, CEC-IDE was subsequently found to be a rebranded release of Visual Studio Code that, among other things, failed to include a copy of the MIT license as required for redistributions. On August 26, Digital Guangdong published a statement admitting that CEC-IDE is based on Visual Studio Code.[42]

See also

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