Visual Studio Code Documentation

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Visual Studio Code

VS Code is a lightweight but powerful development environment for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. It is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

If you landed here looking for other information about VS Code, head over to our website for additional information.

Contributing documentation

To contribute with new topics/information or make changes to existing documentation, see contributing for instructions and guidelines.

If you want to give documentation feedback, please use the feedback control located at the bottom of each documentation page. To enter doc bugs, please create a new GitHub issue (try to check if there isn't a topic about your issue already).

Editing

In order to edit the VS Code documentation, ensure that you have Git installed.

Clone a copy of the repo:

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs.git

VS Code itself is great for reviewing and editing Markdown with nice preview support.

If you want to use VS Code, simply navigate to the vscode-docs directory and launch VS Code from there:

cd vscode-docs
code .

You can now open any of the Markdown files and easily toggle between preview with the Open Preview button in the upper right of the editor.