If you have been following the Microsoft developer space of late, you may have thought to yourself, “It’s a new Microsoft.” These realizations were none the more evident than if you attended the recent //BUILD developer conference. Change is in the air for Microsoft developers and it seems all for the better.

Sure you love the richness of Visual Studio as an IDE and the comforts of managed .NET code. But, just to get started, you have to download and install Visual Studio (several Gigabytes) and setup your developer environment, all before writing even a “Hello World” application. Compared that to the experience of a college kid who may start programming with just a lightweight text editor on a Mac. It’s time to lower the barrier to entry and invite everybody else to our beautiful garden of .NET.

Enter Visual Studio Code – a free, lean, cross-platform version of your beloved Visual Studio. With a lightweight installation, you can enjoy most full-featured benefits of Visual Studio on a Windows, Mac or Linux machine. This article highlights 10 of the compelling features of VS Code, which aims to be your one-stop rich code editor across any developer platform.

Write up as TDN article over HERE!

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