At Codge Genius (Coding Class Penang), we encourage students to use Visual Code Editor. Visual code is a Microsoft product and can be installed on both Mac and Windows. The advantages of Visual Code are Intellisense, Public Extension and build with Git. One of the good things about Visual code is the extension supported by the community itself. The extension comes in handy when you do coding. On top of that, you can use visual code with git copilot and Codium, which are 2 AI tools for coding. Some of the widely used extension are :-
- Visual Studio IntelliCode: Enhances IntelliSense with AI-assisted recommendations based on patterns learned from thousands of open-source projects.
- Live Share: Enables real-time collaborative development sessions where multiple developers can edit and debug together, regardless of their physical location.
- Git Extensions: Integrates Git functionality into Visual Studio, providing a GUI for version control operations and making Git workflows more accessible.
- CodeMaid: Offers code cleanup, organization, and refactoring tools to improve code readability and maintainability.
- Resharper: Provides extensive code analysis, refactoring, and productivity features for C#, VB.NET, XAML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.
- Debugger for Chrome: Allows debugging JavaScript code running in Google Chrome directly from Visual Studio.
- NuGet Package Manager: Simplifies the process of managing third-party libraries and dependencies in .NET projects by providing a GUI for searching, installing, and updating packages from the NuGet gallery.
- Markdown Editor: Enhances support for editing Markdown files within Visual Studio, offering features like live preview, syntax highlighting, and IntelliSense.
- Productivity Power Tools: Offers a collection of productivity enhancements, such as improved navigation, code editing, and refactoring tools.
- Web Essentials: Provides a set of tools for web developers working with ASP.NET and web technologies, including CSS and JavaScript enhancements, bundling, minification, and more.
- Azure DevOps Services: Integrates Visual Studio with Azure DevOps Services (formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services) for managing source code, project planning, build automation, and release management.
