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Now you can find VSCode in your start menu. Visual Studio Code on Linux Installation. Version = 1.0 Type = Application Terminal = false Exec = /opt/VSCode/Code Name = VSCode Icon = /opt/VSCode/resources/app/vso.png Categories = Development With the following content #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open You are done just run code from your terminal! Creating a Desktop IconĬreate a desktop Icon by creating a sktop file sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sktop Sudo ln -s /opt/VSCode/Code /usr/local/bin/code Then move it to the opt/ directory and create a symbolic link.

Installingĭownload the latest Version from the Visual Studio Code website (I found the 64 bit version on the update page) and unzip it. Visual Studio Code is an open source multi-platform IDE for web development (especially JavaScript and Typescript) - enough reasons for me to check it out.

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