How Install Visual Studio Code on Windows 11 (VS Code) (2024)

hey guys in this video I'm going to show you how you can download and install Visual Studio code on your windows 11 operating system so let's get started and let's see how we can do it so first of all open your favorite browser and search for visual studio code and the first link which will appear here will be from code dovisual studio.com so we are going to click on this link and this is the official uh page for visual studio code here straight away you can see this down download button at the top and this download button here on this main window so just click on any of these option I'm going to click on this download for Windows option which is going to start the download of the executable file so you can see this uh download has been started and once this uh Visual Studio code. exe file is downloaded just click on this file and let me minimize my browser and now you can see the setup for visual studio code has been started here click on accept the agreement then click on next this will be the default location where Visual Studio code will be installed so if you don't have the good reason to change this location just leave it as default and then click on next here then you have the start menu folder so I'm going to leave it as default and then click [Music] you can see Visual Studio code has been launched so now when Visual Studio opens for the first time it's going to show you all these options like you can uh choose your theme the default theme is dark modern in my case you can change it to the light theme here or the dark high contrast or light high contrast here I'm going to leave it as dark modern here and then you can also choose Rich support for all languages tun your settings so you can do many other settings from here also once you are happy then you can start working with your Visual Studio code now if you close Visual Studio code you can always uh launch Visual Studio code by just clicking on this Windows icon and then when you search for visual studio code you will see the visual studio code app option and when you click on this uh Visual Studio code option it's going to launch Visual Studio code now once you uh install Visual Studio code you can also open Visual Studio code using the command line so when you just search for uh CMD in the search bar you can see the command prompt option so click on this and once command prompt opens just write code here and then press enter and it's also going to launch Visual Studio code right if you want to uh open some folder in Visual Studio code using command line then what you need to do is so for example what I want to do here is let me open my File Explorer here and then under my desktop I can see a few folders here and I want to open this folder in Visual Studio code so you can also go inside this folder right click inside this folder and then click on show more options and you can see this open with folder option and then you also have this open in terminal option so when you click on open in terminal it's going to open this folder in the terminal so you can just click on open with code and visual studio code will open that folder in Visual Studio code so you can see that folder has been opened in Visual Studio code alternatively what you can do here is you can just copy this path here and then go to your command prompt and then CD and then paste your path here and then press enter and then just write code space dot which is going to open this uh folder in Visual Studio code code also so this is how you can download and install and use Visual Studio code on your Windows operating system I hope you've enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next video

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Length: 5min 43sec (343 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 29 2024