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How to open a Project Folder in Visual Studio Code.

warri — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 20:21:50 +0000

Create a folder(directory) in the Desktop directory on your computer with the name vscode-with-git.
Open Visual Studio Code from your list of installed applications. You should the image below.
Click on Open folder as shown below.

Alternatively, click on file on the top left corner of the **vscode* and select Open folder.*

Locate the position of the folder you earlier created and click on select folder as shown below. If you remembered, it was created on the Desktop folder

If you followed step 4 carefully, your vscode will look like the image below.
When you hover on the folder (VSCODE-WITH-GIT) , you should see four icons. Click on the first icon from the extreme left to create a file.

Hover on the other icons to see what you can achieve with them

Type the name of the file for instance, index.html or text.txt and press enter on your keyboard.