Install Visual Studio Code 1.4 on Linux Mint / Ubuntu
How to Install Visual Studio Code 1.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 wily werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Linux Mint 18 maya, Linux Mint 17.3 and other Ubuntu derivative systems
Visual Studio Code is an IDE tool built by Microsoft that runs on multiple platforms, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides support for numerous programming languages, and it can be used to build modern apps for web and cloud.
Features
The number of programming languages are quite impressive and they include: Batch, C++, Clojure, Coffee Script, DockerFile, F#, Go, Jade, Java, HandleBars, Ini, Lua, Makefile, Markdown, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, Python, R, Razor, Ruby, Rust, SQL, Visual Basic, XML, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JSON, Less, Sass, C#, and TypeScript. It's quite possible that more will be added in the future.
The developers also provided a comprehensive tutorial on the official website on how to deal with each of these languages and they offer some hints for each of them. It's not all that different from what's already available out there, but it's the first one from Microsoft aimed at Linux users.
Usage
Using it is extremely easy. It's possible to start projects from scratch or to import projects started in other places, like Git for example. Visual Studio Code does come with git support, and you can just import a repository from there.
The application has debugging and version control functions, as you would expect, and Microsoft says that these are the strengths of the application.
Visual Studio Code 1.4 Highlights
- Workbench: Editor actions such as Open Preview and Switch to Changes View are back on the title bar. IME and Copy/Paste support in the Integrated Terminal.
- Editor: Better snippet and suggestions control. New Insert Snippet command with dedicated UI.
- Debugging: Restart Frame action to rerun a specific stack frame. ‘Variable paging’ feature moved into VS Code and available to all debug extensions.
- Extension Authoring: New ‘move’ commands to better support VIM gestures. Custom link behavior with the DocumentLinkProvider API. Expanded Debug Protocol.
Notable Changes
- Allow to disable drag and drop in the files explorer
- Sometimes SVG icons do not show up on Windows 7
- Weird tabs auto scrolling behaviour
- Deleting folder containing dirty files closes dirty editors
- Run selected text in active terminal is not running the selected text on Windows
- Lines containing unicode characters in integrated terminal differ in height
- Global search and replace: Support regular expression variables in replace
- See release notes for full details
How to : Install Visual Studio Code 1.4 on Linux Mint / Ubuntu and derivatives :
To Install/Update Visual Studio Code 1.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 xenial xerus, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 18 sarah, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.4 loki, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems via PPA, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
For Ubuntu 32bit
wget https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/6276dcb0ae497766056b4c09ea75be1d76a8b679/code_1.4.0-1470328389_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends code_1.4.0-1470328389_i386.deb
For Ubuntu 64bit
wget https://az764295.vo.msecnd.net/stable/6276dcb0ae497766056b4c09ea75be1d76a8b679/code_1.4.0-1470329130_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-depends code_1.4.0-1470329130_amd64.deb
In case “dpkg” indicates missing dependencies, complete the installation by executing the following command:
sudo apt-get install -f
After install is finished, search visual studio on your ubuntu dashboard :
Enjoy! I hope this article adding you more clarity.
