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Install Visual Studio Code 1.6 on Ubuntu 17.04

Install Visual Studio Code 1.6 on Ubuntu 17.04

August 5, 2020

Visual Studio Code 1.16 released. Install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 17.04. August 2017 release of Visual Studio Code brings a number of significant updates, such as JavaScript/TypeScript refactoring, color picker in HTML, integrated Terminal quick open function, drag and drop function from search and a brand new online documentation. It also brings a powerful VS Code “recipes” repository.

Visual Studio Code 1.16

August 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

  • JavaScript/TypeScript refactoring – Easily extract source code into methods and functions.
  • HTML tag auto close – Improved editor productivity with automatic close tags.
  • Color picker in HTML – You can now use the VS Code color picker in HTML files.
  • Integrated Terminal quick open – Create or jump to terminals from VS Code Quick Open.
  • Drag and drop from search – Quickly open files from Search and also the Problems panel.
  • New online documentation – New Emmet topic and updates to the Node.js Deployment tutorial.
  • VS Code “recipes” repository – Examples using React, Angular and Docker in VS Code.
  • Preview: Multi-root workspaces – Smoother UI when adding folders and creating a Workspace (Insiders build).
  • Preview: Multiple SCM providers – With multiple folders, you can have multiple source control providers (Insiders build).
  • Multi-root tips for extension authors – Update your extension to work seamlessly with multi-root workspaces.

Install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu

Via DEB Package

Ubuntu users can easily download the DEB package from https://code.visualstudio.com/Download and install it manually.

Via Terminal Commands

If you want to install Visual Studio Code via Terminal run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

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