Additionally, it is open source and available for Windows, Linux and macOS. If you haven’t made the jump to Visual Studio yet, or have been thinking about it for a while and are starting to code your applications, below we’ll show you a series of tricks to help you along the way be much more productive while writing code with this awesome application.
View multiple files at once
There are many applications that allow us to open multiple files at the same time in the form of tabs and switch between them quickly and easily. With Visual Studio Code we can open various code files and Display it in the form of columns an ideal feature for all types of screens.
But the best part is that it automatically expands depending on the panel we are in for easier editing, rather than having to adjust our view to what we actually see on the screen.
Customize the design
Like any other application, we cannot change the UI colors in Visual Studio Code as it is a minor issue. However, it allows us to change the design of the mark sentence position, A particularly useful feature if we come from other IDEs and the default colors that Visual Basic displays to highlight the code cause confusion.
On the Virtual Studio Marketplace we find a large number of themes, all completely free. These themes are available via the link below and we have a wide range to choose from.
Use extensions
What would computing be without extensions? Like any web browser, Visual Studio Code extensions allow us add additional features that are not natively available in the application and that allow us to adapt the way we work as efficiently as possible. The extensions for Visual Studio Code are available in the official store, which we can access here.
Dictionary of terms
When programming, it is very likely that we will come across a variable we don’t recognize it or we don’t know how it works. Instead of searching on the Internet, we can use the dictionary of terms available in the application, previously selecting the fragment and pressing the F12 key to display the definition. If we want to find all references to this code fragment, we can use the keyboard shortcut Shift + F12 to display all references to it.
Seek
Visual Studio Code offers us different methods to do this Find the code. On the one hand, we can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F to search for terms in the file we are in. If we also use the Shift key in the Ctrl + Shift + F key combination, the search will be carried out in all files that are part of the project, including subfolders.
