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    Hi,

    The last time I had needed to use Visual Studio, was in 2012/2013. So the IDE I'm familiar with is VS 2012. I'd like to use a more updated version, however and found VS Code 2015. It looks completely different though, so I'd like to know, IS there a difference? If so, what are the differences besides layout? If I code my programs in VS Code 2015, will it have the same results as if I code in VS 2012?

    Thanks
    Tuesday, August 18, 2015 3:45 AM

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    Hi Whispering Feathers,

    Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

    >>IS there a difference? If so, what are the differences besides layout? If I code my programs in VS Code 2015, will it have the same results as if I code in VS 2012?

    Visual Studio Code, a new, free, cross-platform code editor for building modern web and cloud applications on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

    Visual Studio Code is a stripped down version of Visual Studio 2015, with emphasis in just writing the code instead of dealing with debugging, compiling, testing, refactoring, and all the other things that make Visual Studio great.

    The people using Visual Studio Code will probably be those on a Mac who will just deal with client-side technologies (HTML/JS/CSS) and do not want to install Windows in order to do that.

    In summarize, VS code is an editor while VS is an IDE. VS Code is cross platform and fast, while VS is windows only and not fast.

    So as my understanding, if you code your program in VS code 2015, it maybe will not have the same results as if you code in VS 2012.

    Best Regards,

    Jiayi Li

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    • Proposed as answer by Jiayi Li Wednesday, August 26, 2015 8:06 AM
    • Marked as answer by Jiayi Li Monday, August 31, 2015 9:19 AM
    Wednesday, August 19, 2015 7:43 AM