Visual Studio Code

VS Code is a small, open source tool that is not a full IDE, but a simple code editor that has been developed by Microsoft. This editor is very lightweight and platform-independent. VS Code doesn't come with most of the features that the VS IDE has, but has sufficient features for developing and debugging an application.

For this book, we are going to use VS Community in most of our cases, but you can install any version that you wish. You can download the Community edition free of cost at the following link: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.