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

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838822934

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Visual Studio

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Application Development

Authors (2):

Khusro Habib

Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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Chapter 2: Extensions in Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is one of the most popular advanced editors in the industry and is used by many developers. One of the key features of VS Code is extensions. With extensions, any developer of any platform can use VS Code with any language and framework to develop any kind of application. You can install any extension from VS Code's extension gallery in your editor and use it to perform the desired operation.

There are various extensions available that are categorized under the labels Azure, Debuggers, Formatters, Keymaps, Language Packs, Programming Languages, Themes, and many more. You can add these extensions to enable extensibility in VS Code and use the features to make developer experience better. In addition, you can also write your own extensions for specific scenarios and share them in the marketplace so they can be used by other developers around the globe.

This extensibility and complaisance make VS Code...