Microsoft has announced a private preview of the backend service that powers its Visual Studio Code editor, along with a specific CLI to manage it. Visual Studio Code Server can be installed ...

Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

To use Visual Studio Code for remote development, install VS Code and the Remote Development Extension Pack. If you are connecting to a remote server, set up SSH on your local machine.

Remote editing and debugging using Visual Studio Code Like the ISE, Visual Studio Code also provides remote editing tools, allowing you to work with PowerShell on a remote server from your desktop.

Believe it or not you can use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code from your web browser, or at least, versions of it.

You can use your existing Visual Studio account with Live Share, or you can sign in with a new account if you want to keep Visual Studio and Live Share separate.

Remote debugging in Visual Studio allows you to step through code, set breakpoints, review objects, inspect the stack, and catch errors on a remote server just as if you were running the code locally.

Extensions to Visual Studio Code can use the Language Server Protocol, which defines the protocol used between an editor or IDE and a language server that provides language features like auto ...