To the left of the editor, there is a vertical view bar with five icons (See Figure 1). There are tabs for switching between the currently opened files above it, and a status bar with basic information about the currently edited files, below it. Once you open VS Code, you will observe most of the window is dedicated to the editor. Both builds automatically download and install updates, when the editor is restarted. Their icons are of different colors (blue icon for release build, green for the Insiders build), to easily differentiate between the two. a preview version that can be installed in parallel to the stable version. You can also download the Insiders build, i.e. The Free Visual Studio Code installer for all supported platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) can be downloaded from. This article should help you get started, or make you more productive at this increasingly popular text editor.

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