Installation and Customization of VSCode - UGuntupalli/GeneralWorkflow GitHub Wiki

This page tries to detail the installation and customization of VSCode. VSCode is a text editor which needs to be customized to become an IDE, but it has a very large market place of extensions which help to customize and transform the text editor into a powerful IDE. Outlined below are the steps to install and customize VSCode.

Installation of VSCode:

1. Download VS Code from VSCode Website

2. Accept the license terms

3. Select an install location, default is fine

4. Select whether a shortcut should be installed in the start menu, if desired select the checkbox at the bottom

5. Select any additional tasks desired, you can leave defaults as is if you don't want to customize

6. Finish installation

7. Launch VS Code

8. In order to enable extensions, the following steps need to be followed:

9. VSCode being a text editor cannot run Python without an extension. Some helpful extensions to enable depending on usage and needs are:

1. Python - mandatory
2. Python Docstring Generator
3. Indent Rainbow
4. Excel Viewer
5. TODO Highlight
6. Error Lens
7. Rainbow Brackets
8. YAML

10. Command Palette is the key tool to perform any action in VSCode and the shortcut to activate it is Ctrl+Shift+P (in Windows) only. To clone a repository from version control like GitHub or Bitbucket, the following steps could be followed: