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I just came to know about Visual Studio Code. I would like to know, can I replace Visual Studio for all .NET development related work? Can I save my cost of Visual Studio licensing? What is there in Visual Studio which is not there in Visual Studio Code?

SamTech
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    Possible duplicate of [What are the difference between Visual Studio Code and Visual studio?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30527522/what-are-the-difference-between-visual-studio-code-and-visual-studio) – High Performance Mark Oct 05 '16 at 07:07

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This question already has an answer here and here.

The list of differences is huge.

Visual Studio Code is a source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS, 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.

People using Windows and developing C#, F# or VB will continue to use Visual Studio 2015.

Also the difference is that .NET has been split into two: .NET Core (Mac/Linux/Windows) .NET Framework (Windows only) All native user interface technologies (Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, etc) are part of the framework, not the core.

Also, Visual Studio tends to be oriented around Projects & Solutions. Projects have a large amount of scaffolding (pre-generated starting templates) and features.

VS Code looks to be presently oriented around files, as a glorified text editor, and no project scaffolding exists.

Source : MSDN forum and quora

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    Visual Studio Code does have debugging capabilities. I'm debugging python on it as I am typing this. – Cthutu Aug 21 '17 at 16:17
  • "People using Windows and developing C#, F# or VB will continue to use Visual Studio" - yeah, if they can afford it. – Adam Burley Feb 04 '21 at 15:38