Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code is a free, cross-platform code editor released by Microsoft in 2015.
Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a free code editor released by Microsoft in 2015 for Windows, macOS and Linux. It offers extensions, an integrated terminal, debugging and Git integration. It is a separate product from Microsoft's Visual Studio development environment.
AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code can be added to VS Code as extensions.
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The tracing work was handed to Claude Code running as an extension inside VS Code.
IDEs such as VS Code
Claude Code can turn a plain-language request into files and a working app inside Visual Studio Code.
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