How to Download and Install Visual Studio Code: In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to download and install visual studio code. Visual Studio Code is a free source code editor from Microsoft. It is completely supported on Windows, Linux and Mac Operating System. It is widely recognizable because of its advanced features like debugging, syntax featuring, code consummation, snippets and other significant tons of features.
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Steps to Download and Install Visual Studio Code
Step 1: Prerequisites
a) You should have Internet Access to download the Software.
b) You should have access to Install software in your System.
Step 2: Download Visual Studio Code
First you need to download Visual Studio Code for Windows from Official Download Page as displayed beneath. When you Click on Windows, it will begin downloading in your local default download folder.
Step 3: Install Visual Studio Code
Whenever it is downloaded, you can simply double tap it to begin installing the software.
a) Accept License Agreement
The first window that you get is of License Agreement where you need to tap on I accept the agreement after going through the whole agreement points. Then, at that point, Click on Next.
b) Select Destination Location
Then, at that point, the next window will ask you select your destination installation location. I will leave this as default and then Click on Next.
c) Select Start Menu Folder
Here it will ask to setup the program shortcuts location. I will leave this as default. If you want to set different location then you can tap on Browse and change the location. On the off chance that you would prefer not to create a Start Menu folder then you can click this option too on the bottom of the screen as displayed underneath. Then, at that point, Click on Next.
d) Select Additional Tasks
Then, at that point, the next screen is to set the extra tasks like Register code as an editor for supported files types, create a desktop icon, Add “Open with Code” action to Windows Explorer file context menu etc. the present, we are using the default selection, so I will simply tap on Next.
e) Ready to Install
When you click on Install, it will begin installing and you can track the progress beneath.
f) Setup Finish
If everything goes well then, you will see beneath completion setup wizard where you can simply tap on Finish to finish up the installation. Additionally as you can see here I have tapped on Launch Visual Studio Code, so when I click on finish it will begin the Visual Studio Code Graphical Interface.
g) Choose your theme
At the point when you start Visual Studio Code for the first time, it will ask you select your theme as displayed underneath. You can choose your theme or you can use the default one. This pretty much completes the Installation of Visual Studio Code.
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