Table of Contents
The Story behind the Succinctly Series of Books ................................................................................... 5
About the Author ......................................................................................................................................... 7
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 8
Chapter 1 Code Editing Evolved for Windows, Linux, and OS X ........................................................... 9
Why Visual Studio Code .......................................................................................................................... 9
Language Support ................................................................................................................................. 10
Editing Features ..................................................................................................................................... 12
Working With Files and Folders ............................................................................................................. 38
Chapter Summary .................................................................................................................................. 50
Chapter 2 The Workspace and the User Interface ................................................................................. 51
The Code Editor ..................................................................................................................................... 51
The Status Bar ....................................................................................................................................... 53
The View Bar ......................................................................................................................................... 53
The Side Bar .......................................................................................................................................... 55
Quick File Navigation ............................................................................................................................. 60
The Command Palette ........................................................................................................................... 60
Chapter Summary .................................................................................................................................. 62
Chapter 3 Git Version Control and Task Automation ............................................................................ 63
Version Control with Git ......................................................................................................................... 63
Automating Tasks .................................................................................................................................. 74
Chapter Summary .................................................................................................................................. 84
Chapter 4 Creating and Debugging Applications .................................................................................. 85
Chapter Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................ 85
Creating an ASP.NET Core Web Application ........................................................................................ 86
Debugging in Visual Studio Code .......................................................................................................... 93
Chapter Summary ................................................................................................................................ 101
Chapter 5 Customizing and Extending Visual Studio Code ............................................................... 102
Introducing the Visual Studio Code Marketplace ................................................................................. 102
Understanding Customizations and Extensions .................................................................................. 103
Customizing Visual Studio Code ......................................................................................................... 104
Create Your First Extension: Language With Grammar, Colorization, and Snippets .......................... 113
Chapter Summary ................................................................................................................................ 128
