Visual Studio Code

A powerful, lightweight code editor for cloud development.

Overview

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 and runtimes (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go, .NET).

Key Resources

Homepage: https://azure.microsoft.com/products/visual-studio-code/
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Getting Started

  1. 10/26/2022, Learning Module
    Evaluate whether Visual Studio Code is appropriate for your development work.

News

Date News
3/17/2023
Last year was busy for Microsoft on the Java front and 2023 is shaping up to be even more exciting. We’ve been expanding our portfolio of Java-centered apps on Azure, exploring smart serverless,...
2/28/2023
Every month, our team curates content around a particular theme. This month's content will empower you to build scalable serverless apps with Power Platform and Azure — all using low code....
2/23/2023
If you've used the Azure Logic App (Standard) extension for Visual Studio Code, you are probably well aware that it uses seven-day access tokens to authenticate with Azure API Connections....
1/30/2023
Microservices brings a lot of opportunities to the table compared to old monoliths. Unfortunately, there are things that was/is easier with those big blocks of code that becomes more complex when...
1/30/2023
Microservices brings a lot of opportunities to the table compared to old monoliths. Unfortunately, there are things that was/is easier with those big blocks of code that becomes more complex when...
1/25/2023
The following updates are now available to help customers reduce adoption barriers and pricing frictions to take full advantage of the capabilities offered by Azure Spring Apps...
1/23/2023
Logic Apps Standard now supports File System connector in App Service Environment. This enables customers to connect to any on-premise file shares with in the VNET from their workflows.   How to...
1/12/2023
Use the Azure Automation extension to perform local authoring and management of automation runbooks using VS Code
12/14/2022
Easily containerize non-container applications using Draft.
11/28/2022
I think most practitioners can agree that making the jump from ad-hoc code deployments to a continuous integration (CI/CD) deployment model can seem complex.  There are so many things that you...
11/7/2022
Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension now allows you to export groups of logic apps workflows deployed to Azure.
10/12/2022
The job diagram simulator provides a capability to visualize your Stream Analytics job’s topology and help you improve the query’s parallelism as you develop your streaming query.
9/25/2022
Azure Cloud Shell automatically has the latest version of Terraform installed. Also, as Terraform is run from the cloud it automatically uses information from the current Azure subscription and...
9/25/2022
Running Terraform locally in Windows along with the Azure CLI gives you a bit more flexibility in large corporates due to eliminating the need to connect to Azure Cloud Shell from VS Code, which...
8/17/2022
Easily create Dockerfiles, deployment files, and GitHub Actions through Visual Studio Code using the AKS DevX extension.
5/24/2022
Use Draft through the Azure CLI, Azure Portal, and Visual Studio Code to create a Dockerfile for your application and the necessary Kubernetes manifests.
4/13/2022
You can now deploy and manage Azure Container Apps from Visual Studio Code.