How to install Visual Studio Code 1.17 Adds Mac OS Touch Bar Support on Ubuntu

   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 (such as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Visual Studio Code 1.17 release highlights:

• macOS Touch Bar support - Touch Bar actions for navigation and debugging.
• Source code folding improvements - Collapse region markers and off-side language blocks.
• Integrated Terminal performance - Terminal rendering is up to 45 times faster.
• Automatic import suggestions - See module and path import suggestions while coding.
• Debugging shows source location - Easily navigate from the Debug Console to source code.
• Better colorization of regex and format strings - Helps with parsing and identifying errors.
• Improved multiple SCM support - New UI to view changes in multiple source control repositories.
• New online documentation - Java language, 'Tips and Tricks', and Debugging Recipes topics.
• Preview: Multi-root workspaces - No reload on workspace updates, combined view of available tasks.
• Multi-root guide for extension authors - To help extenders be ready for multi-root workspaces.

Installation instructions:

    Download .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu at the link below:

 https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

 Then install it via command (Ctrl+Alt+T):

$ sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/code_*.deb; sudo apt -f install

   who want to receive updates for VS Code via Software Updater utility, add the Microsoft repository via following steps (64bit only):

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list' $ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg $ sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg