Visual Studio Code - Master the Complete VS Code environment

By default, VS Code requires an explicit action to save your changes to disk. However, it's easy to turn on Auto Save, which will save your changes after a configured delay or when focus leaves the editor.

IntelliSense is a general term for a variety of code editing features including: code completion, parameter info, quick info, and member lists. IntelliSense features are sometimes called by other names such as "code completion", "content assist", and "code hinting."

Emmet (formerly Zen Coding ) is a set of plug-ins for text editors that allow for high-speed coding and editing in HTML, XML, XSL, and other structured code formats via content assist. The tools have been incorporated into several popular text editors, as well as some plug-ins developed by the Emmet team and others implemented independently. However, Emmet is primarily independent from any text editor, as the engine works directly with text rather than with any particular software.

VS Code allows you to quickly find text and replace in the currently opened file.

Visual Studio Code has a high productivity code editor which, when combined with programming language services, gives you the power of an IDE and the speed of a text editor. In this topic, we'll first describe VS Code's language intelligence features (suggestions, parameter hints, smart code navigation) and then show the power of the core text editor.

What are Snippets, where can we find them and how can we create our own Snippets!?

Shortcut keys are essential for productivity!

Visual Studio Code lets you perform most tasks directly from the keyboard. In this lecture we will learn the default bindings (keyboard shortcuts) and describes how you can update them.

All keyboard shortcuts in VS Code can be customized!

To configure keyboard shortcuts through the JSON file, open Keyboard Shortcuts editor and ...

Keyboard shortcuts are vital to productivity and changing keyboarding habits can be tough. In  File > Preferences > Keymap Extensions shows you a list of popular keymap extensions. These extensions modify the VS Code shortcuts to match those of other editors so you don't need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.

You can add extensions in order to import keybindings and settings form other popular Code editors like:

• Sublime Text

• Atom

• Visual Studio

In this lecture we will go over Visual Studio Codes own integrated Themes and File Icons and how to change  them.