1. Visual Studio Code Optimization
2. What Is Visual Studio Code
3. Visual Studio Code Download
4. Visual Studio Code Api

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as.NET and Unity). Visit the VS Code install page and select the 32 or 64 bit installer. Install Visual Studio Code on Windows (not in your WSL file system). When prompted to Select Additional Tasks during installation, be sure to check the Add to PATH option so you can easily open a folder in WSL using the code command.

Visual Studio Code is an optimized, feature rich code editor for building web and cloud application’s. It is developed by the Microsoft team. It includes feature like embedded Git, supports debugging feature, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring.

The Visual Studio code is freely available for most of modern operating systems like Windows, Linux (RPM and Debian installation is also available), and macOS.

This tutorial will help you to install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux system using Apt package manager and using snap package.

Prerequisites

Login to your Ubuntu 18.04 system with sudo proviledgted account. You must have Ubuntu Dekstop installed on your system.

Step 1 – Installing Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is available as the Snap package as well official apt repository with Debian package. Choose one of the below methods as per your choice. The Ubuntu 18.04 does not have Snap tool installed. So, we are providing installation method using Debian package first.

• 1. Install using Apt Repository

  First of all, Import the GPG key to your system to verify packages before installation. To import gpg key, type:

  Microsoft team provides an repository for the Debian packages installation. To enable the Visual Studio code Apt repository, type:

  Once you successfully added the repository to your system, Execute the following commands to install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu system.

  Press ‘y’ for any confirmation prompted by the installer.

• 2. Install using Snap Package

  The snap package contains all the requirements for any application. Make sure you have Snapd service installed on your system or use the following command to install it.

  Once snpad deamon installed on your system, execute the below command on your system terminal:

  The above command will download VS Code snappackage and install on your system. Once the installation completed successfully, you will see the following output.

  That’s it. The Visual Studio Code snap package has been successfully installed on your system.

Step 2 – Launch Visual Studio Code

Now, The Visual Studio Code has been installed on your Ubuntu 20.04 system. To launch the application type “code” in search application and click on it.

The Visual Studio Code editor is ready to use.

There are a large number of extensions available for Visual Studio Code like C#, Python, JavaScript, Google Chrome etc. Install the required extensions to enhance your working experience with the Visual Studio Code.

Conclusion

This tutorial helps you to install Visual Studio Code on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux system.

You can run Visual Studio Code on Raspberry Pi devices.

By downloading and using Visual Studio Code, you agree to the license terms and privacy statement.

Installation

Visual Studio Code is officially distributed via the Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian) APT repository, in both 32-bit and 64-bit variants.

You can install it by running:

Running VS Code

After installing the VS Code package, you can run VS Code by typing code in a terminal or launching it via the Programming menu.

Updates

Your Raspberry Pi should handle updating VS Code in the same way as other packages on the system:

You can always check when a new release is available in our Updates page.

System requirements

Visual Studio Code Optimization

What Is Visual Studio Code

VS Code is supported on these Raspberry Pi models running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS:

• Raspberry Pi 3 Model B/B+
• Raspberry Pi 4 Model B
• Raspberry Pi 400

While 1 GB of memory (RAM) meets the minimum system requirements, users will benefit from installing VS Code on a Raspberry Pi 4 with more memory.

First-generation Raspberry Pi modules and Raspberry Pi Zero are not supported as they only include an ARMv6 CPU.

Next steps

Visual Studio Code Download

Once you have installed VS Code, these topics will help you learn more about it:

Visual Studio Code Api

• Additional Components - Learn how to install Git, Node.js, TypeScript, and tools like Yeoman.
• User Interface - A quick orientation to VS Code.
• User/Workspace Settings - Learn how to configure VS Code to your preferences through settings.