Rather than starting LINQPad for C# or Chrome dev tools for JavaScript, Code Runner can execute one or more highlighted lines of code inside Code. I often find myself needing to try out a few lines of C# or JavaScript code. Jun Han developed another useful extension called Code Runner. This is most likely the first extension you will ever install as a. Wait a minute! You need an extension to develop C# in Code? Since Code supports multiple programming languages, C# support is like any other language an extension. We still use Visual Studio to maintain Functions, because the tooling is better, but I can see where Microsoft is going with the support for Code. I won't go into detail about Functions here, except to tell you how awesome they are (and we already wrote a series about developing and logging in Azure Functions). Azure FunctionsĪ lot of the elmah.io internals are written as Azure Functions. It's amazing how tiny improvements like these can make a world of difference. Auto Close Tag automatically adds a closing tag, which saves you quite a lot of keystrokes over time, while Auto Rename Tag renames closed tags automatically. However, using these two extensions from Jun Han, will give you much of the same experience in Code.

I don't usually write HTML in VSCode, since the HTML editor in Visual Studio 2017 is pretty awesome. This blog post is part of our Learn about. This post is a summary of all the different extensions we've found to make Code even better. We use Code for quickly previewing files, writing markdown, non C# programming, quick prototyping, and much more. We haven't replaced Visual Studio, but it's great for some aspects of our development process. Previously, we used a lot of different development tools (alongside Visual Studio), but that changed when Microsoft launched Visual Studio Code. Extending your IDE is the new black and we also use a lot of extensions every day in our daily work.

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