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I'm confused to choose between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio Community 2017. Can someone explain to me in detail? thanks

  • Read the product pages and it should become clear what they are and which you should use. – Sami Kuhmonen Mar 25 '17 at 04:51
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    You can know a few differences in a similar question [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30527522/what-are-the-differences-between-visual-studio-code-and-visual-studio) . I have tried to answer the same, precisely – Irf Mar 25 '17 at 05:04

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Visual Studio Community 2017:
is a Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers.
It is full featured IDE

Visual Studio Code:
is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. This is more of like an editor

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See the Documentation on both of these Applications

  1. Visual Studio Community
  2. Visual Studio Code

    I fetched a simple description from the documentation

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages

Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs for Microsoft Windows, as well as web sites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such as Windows API, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Store and Microsoft Silverlight. It can produce both native code and managed code. (Wiki)

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