Visual Studio Code - A Free Cross-Platform Code Editor For OS X, Linux And Windows

Introduction:

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice-president of cloud and enterprise introduced Visual Studio Code at Microsoft Build 2015 conference held on Wednesday. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor and first cross-platform development tool supported by the OSX, Linux and Windows in the Visual Studio Family. Visual Studio Code provide built-in support for ASP.NET 5 development with C#, Node.js as well as for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, Less, SASS and JSON etc.

Installation Procedure:
Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/ and Click on Code for Windows button.

or Go to https://www.visualstudio.com/products/code-vs and Click on Download Code button.

Select operating system/platform on which you want to install (Code is free and available on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). I am going to install it on my Windows 8 Operating System.

After Downloading VSCodeSetup.exe (58 MB approx), Double click on setup. It will hardly take 1 minute to complete the installation.

Installation Completed Successfully. We are ready to explore its cool feature.

User Interface of VSCode is divided into 4 areas:
1. Editor
2. Sidebar
3. Statusbar
4. Viewbar

Features:
1. Command Palette:
With the help of Command Palette, you can access all the functionality of VSCode. Press Ctrl+Shift+P or F1 to open the Command Palette.

2. Multi-Cursor:
VSCode has support for Multiple cursors. You can edit the same file at multiple places by pressing Alt+Click which will add another cursor(much Similar to the Sublime Editor).

3. IntelliSense and Syntax coloring:

4. Debugging, Themes Customization and lots of other features

For more information, visit https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs
Hope you like it. Thanks.