

It has a button in the activity bar! Extensions are popular in Atom and Brackets, as well (both very similar IDEs built on Electron), but neither have made extensions so accessible and simple. First and perhaps foremost, they integrate extensions as a primary function of the IDE. Microsoft did lots right when developing VS Code, but there are a few (okay, five) specific things that sick out (to me) that make it universally appealing. After all, Sublime Text and Atom (made by GitHub) were incredibly popular and had a large user base Microsoft had a large hill to climb.

When it first came out, nobody expected a tool made by Microsoft to become so dominant. As of 2020, nearly 51% of developers claim to use it as their primary development environment.

In a very short time, it has taken the coding world by storm. Visual Studio (VS) Code was released on Apby Microsoft.

You can select just the next matching location by using Alt+Shift+. Visual Studio will select all the locations that match the selected text in the current document. Select the word you want to match and press Alt+Shift+. You can insert a caret at all places where the current word exists. Press Ctrl+Alt and click where you want to add a caret. If you want to edit multiple places that are unaligned, you can use the multi-cursor edit. Press Alt+Shift+Arrow to select the block to edit: Press Alt while selecting the block with the mouse: For instance when you want to add the modifier to multiple properties. This is very useful to apply the same change to multiple lines. Visual Studio allows to edit multiple lines at the same time.
