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Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code

You're reading from   Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code Get up and running with VS Code by building multi-platform, cloud-native, and microservices-based apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838822934
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Khusro Habib Khusro Habib
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Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Visual Studio Code
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Studio Code FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code 4. Section 2: Developing Microservices-Based Applications in Visual Studio Code
5. Chapter 3: Building a Multi-Platform Backend Using Visual Studio Code 6. Chapter 4: Building a Service in .NET Core and Exploring Dapr 7. Chapter 5: Building a Web-Based Frontend Application with Angular 8. Chapter 6: Debugging Techniques 9. Chapter 7: Deploying Applications on Azure 10. Chapter 8: Git and Azure DevOps 11. Section 3: Advanced Topics on Visual Studio Code
12. Chapter 9: Creating Custom Extensions in Visual Studio Code 13. Chapter 10: Remote Development in Visual Studio Code 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discussing basic features of VS Code

With a brief introduction to development tools, we will now start off our learning journey by exploring some basic features of VS Code.

Files and folders

Unlike an IDE, VS Code does not depend on creating a solution or a project file. Your project is your folder, with subfolders and files in it. You can use the File menu and Open File... or Open Folder to start editing, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 1.1 – File menu in VS Code editor

Opening the folder will load all the files of the folder in VS Code. You can open multiple folders at a time. These folders will be available in the left pane of the editor.

Workspace

Often, your product will be organized into multiple interlinked projects. In this case, VS Code provides an option to combine these folders in a workspace. This way, when you open a workspace, it will open all the related project folders.

To do this, you can simply select...

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