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Ashutosh Kumar Sinha
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Visual Studio Code Cheatsheet

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Website: https://code.visualstudio.com

VSCode Documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs

Install Visual Studio Code 

brew cask install visual-studio-code
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Verify the Installed Visual Studio Code Version 

code -v
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Visual Studio Code CLI Help 

code --help
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Add Visual Studio Code to PATH 

cat << EOF >> ~/.bash_profile
# Add Visual Studio Code (code)
export PATH="\$PATH:/Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin"
EOF
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Open Project in Visual Studio Code 

cd my_dev_project_directory
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If this is a existing folder then it will load all the project files present in this directory in VS Code

code .
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Opens a New Session of Visual Studio Code 

code -n
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Open a File in Visual Studio Code

This command will create the file if the file is not existing with this name in the current directory.

code filename
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Open a File in Visual Studio Code with Cursor at a particular line 

code -g filename:line
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Open a diff in Visual Studio Code 

code -d filename1 filename2
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