Installing & Setting Up Visual Studio Code

Hi, I'm Dan Rodney here for Noble Desktop, and I'm going to show you how to install and set up Visual Studio Code. I'll be showing you how to install it on a Mac, on Windows. I'll show you how to set preferences, install extensions, and define keyboard shortcuts.

Let's see how to install Visual Studio Code on a Mac. First we'll download the software. If the download does not automatically unzip, you'll want to unzip the file. Once unzipped, you'll have an application. Make sure you put it in the Applications folder. Do not launch it from where it is in the Downloads folder. Make sure you put it into Applications and launch it from the Applications folder. Dismiss the security warning once you've launched the app.

We can skip past this initial setup. Normally when working in VS Code, you'll open a folder rather than an individual file, so you can go over to the Explorer panel and open up a folder here. Let me demonstrate with a sample folder here. When I choose this, the very first time you open something in a location, you will get this security warning. Just go ahead and trust the authors, assuming that these are files that you're familiar with and that you have created. Once you dismiss that, you won't see it again for that location on your computer. Now I can open a file here in the Explorer panel, and we can see that it is installed and working.