Developing Multi-Platform Apps with Visual Studio Code: Get up and running with VS Code by building multi-platform, cloud-native, and microservices-based apps

I was looking for a such a book to understand Visual Studio Code.The Multi-cursor editing amongst other basic editing tools is a great help especially when having to select multiple occurrences of the same text and edit at the same time. The instructions are fully detailed with plenty of screenshots to help drive the points across. The shortcuts shown in the book are great to navigate Visual Studio Code and provide great time savers. The code snippets are also very helpful at limiting the amount of time taken to write the code. The themes and extensions are great I especially liked the way the author teaches you how to create a new extensions.json file with your recommended extensions. Learning how to install extensions from the CLI is of course very valuable information. I am already a certified Azure Administrator however still not being able to land a job in that field. Section 2 was a great refresher course in Azure and have a better understanding of Azure Devops and Angular frameworks now. Debugging practices and examples are on point. I was unable to completely grasp the concept of using containers however now I understand and know how Docker and Kubernetes work. I greatly applaud the author of this book and have faith that with the knowledge attained by reading and following the examples on Developing Multiplatform Apps with Visual Studio Code, that I am now ready to pass any future job interviews and have faith that I will be be able to attain a job as a Cloud Administrator.

Visual studio code is the most used open source IDE by for developing & configuring multi\cross platform apps. I do advice anyone to discover the incredibly power of visual studio code available the below book. Personally, I'm using visual studio code from years but I was not aware of many nice features available there. It doesn't matter which language you are writing or which framework you are using as all of this is available with details on the below book.

Here's a book that's just-in-time: Open-source dev using Visual Studo Code.Starts with great walk-through of VS Code: What it is, what it does, and how to use it.Covers microservice development across different platforms.Covers the upcoming Dapr framework, Angular front-end development, DevOps integration, Azure deployment, and even creating custom VS Code extenions.A must-read for any developer on any platform.

Great book. covered most of the major points.

The book has about 300 pages. The first 10% is on the tool VsCode. It is perfect for someone getting started with VsCode. For those who already use VsCode, you can skip the first chapter, and even chapter two dedicated to extensions can be skimmed.The rest of the book is organized into few topics like using Kafka with Azure Event hub, how to run a service that runs in the background, and the it starts building a web application. My personal takes on "multiplatform" were not to create a web application but maybe an Electron or an application within a container. So, be aware of what you are getting into. In my perspective, chapter 6 can be skipped if you know how to debug. Chapter 7 is interesting if you never deployed a Docker or never used Kubernetes. The idea of container and images are both well covered by the author. Chapter 8 could have been removed since it is a stretch of the main topic: Git and Azure DevOpsOverall, the book is fine if you want to jump into Docker with having information about VsCode. The book title is a little bit misnamed, in my opinion, and should have demonstrated how to build that can be run on Windows and MacOS for example. The use of image is still relevant and the use of many techniques would still be great. Still a good read.

This book is good if you code in multiple languages and want to become familiar with visual studio code and it's offerings!I have enjoyed reading all the chapters! My favorite is where the author deep dives into how to debug code like node.js with vscode!Also it has a chapter around how to build your own visualstudio extensions that is useful!

As a developer myself, taking a look at this book reinforced the ideas and methods I have learned over the many years I have been working.The book starts off with an introduction to VS Code. If you haven't had a hands-on experience with the platform then this is a great place to start. Pact offers samples that you are able to use and play around with. This is a great way to experience coding hands-on. This makes it a great book to start off with and can be great for anyone.It has been really useful to understand the backend works of the platform and also understanding how we can make multi-platform apps with VS Code. The book gives a high-level idea of building these kinds of applications and the reader is guided with the best way to develop many complex apps.This is a great book for beginners and advanced developers to refresh the ideas for building multiple types of applications using VS Code.It is a great resource and has helped me so much when I couldn't find an answer to something online right away, and knowing that this book is with me all the time, I knew exactly what I needed to know to develop a service with .NET and get the environment started.I recommend this book to people who want to get started right away but don't know where to begin. This is a great way to get your hands-on experience while also learning the mechanics of what goes on in a full-fledged application.