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32 questions linked to/from What are the differences between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio?
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Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code [duplicate]
I'm a Computer Science student and I'm learning to become a game developer. For the last 1 year, I've been using Visual Studio to edit my scripts in Unity. It was only recently that my colleagues ...
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What is the difference between Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code [duplicate]
What is the difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. What should I choose to develop apps and webapps with Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
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Getting started with Visual Basic [duplicate]
I'm getting started with learning visual basic and was wondering if I should download the visual studio community or the visual studio code? What's the difference?
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Microsoft Visual Studio Interface is not making sense to me [duplicate]
Apologies if this doesn't belong here. I tried Reddit, but got trolled. I'm just at a loss and am struggling to follow tutorials, etc because of it. I'm coming from an exclusively Python background ...
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How do I fold/collapse/hide sections of code in Visual Studio Code?
How do I fold or collapse sections of code in Visual Studio Code? Is this feature supported?
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How to use Visual Studio Code as the default editor for Git MergeTool including for 3-way merge
Today I was trying to use the git mergetool on the Windows command prompt and realized that it was defaulting to use Vim, which is cool, but I'd prefer VS Code. How can I have Visual Studio Code ...
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How can I turn off "matching" highlighting in Visual Studio Code?
I don't want Visual Studio Code to highlight matching brackets, all occurrences of the same variable, etc. I find it very distracting. However, I can find no way to disable this feature. The only ...
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8 answers
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How to Edit multiple lines in Visual studio 2017 at once
I'm following a series of videos on Youtube on how to develop a dashboard using bootstrap. The developer in that series uses the Sublime Text editor. I've noticed that sometimes he clicks on multiple ...
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How to change the highlights for selected text and selection/word matches in VS Code? [duplicate]
Visual confusion: 'selected text' and 'selection matches' highlight color As a daily VS Code user I found an earlier closed issue (Selection and selection matches highlight color #1636) about this - ...
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How to open a Visual Studio Code Folder (Project) in Visual Studio IDE
How do I open I a Visual Studio Code folder in Visual Studio 2015? If I open it as a "Web Site", it tries to treat the node_modules directory as part of the project's normal JavaScript files and ...
27 votes
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How do I change font of comments in visual studio code?
After watching a Sublime3 screencast by a famous python programmer, I found that display code comment in a fancy font is a great idea, which let comment more distinguishable and makes comment reading ...
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3 answers
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Jupyter Notebook support in Visual Studio 2019
I'm able to debug Python programs and would like to use Jupyter Notebboks, but I do not see the Python extension under "Manage Extensions" on VS Professional 2019. This is a picture of my VS ...
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Can Visual Studio Code be installed side by side with visual studio 2019 [duplicate]
Is it safe to install Visual Studio Code on a machine that has an installation of Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise? Are there any known issues?
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Visual Studio Code replacing Visual Studio
I just came to know about Visual Studio Code. I would like to know, can I replace Visual Studio for all .NET development related work? Can I save my cost of Visual Studio licensing? What is there in ...
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VS 2017 Installation failed
I install the VS2017 on Windows 7. After some time I receive the error: MSI: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Packages\Microsoft.VisualStudio.MinShell.Msi,version=15.6.27421.1\Microsoft....