difference between visual studio and visual studio code

Visual studio code is based on Electron framework, which is used to build cross platform desktop application using web technologies. Recently ASP.NET 5 RC1 was released and please give a read to What’s new in ASP.NET 5 RC1 and RC2 and if you are new to ASP.NET 5 then read Quick summary of what’s changed in ASP.NET 5. Since ASP.NET 5 is also cross platform as having a code editor on linux and mac makes sense. Since a lot of developers use windows as their development environment, but there are also lots of developers using Linux and Mac. Visual Studio Code is free, cross platform, super fast and lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and OS X. Visual studio code is a separate product from Microsoft and it is completely different from Visual studio 2015. Initially when I heard this name “VS Code”, my instant reaction was “it may be a plug-in and it has some connection with Visual Studio 2015. First, don’t get confused by name “Visual Studio Code”.

Difference between visual studio and visual studio code