How to install Visual Studio Code 1.19 on Ubuntu 17.04, 17.10

  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 1.19 release highlights:

• Performance - Faster startup and other performance improvements.
• Serviceability/Diagnostics - New VS Code diagnostics, logging, and extension monitoring.
• Smarter IntelliSense - IntelliSense remembers your previous suggestion choices.
• Better Tab layout - Tabbed headers can scale to fit the available space.
• Git side-by-side image diff - Git source control provider can display image changes side by side.
• Pipe output into VS Code - Easily view terminal output in a VS Code editor.
• New debugging recipes - Learn how to debug Next.js, Meteor projects and applications using the nodemon utility.
• Workbench - Compare your active file to the Clipboard contents.
• Editor - Folding improvements, interval line numbers, support macOS global Clipboard.
• Languages - TypeScript 2.6.2, JSX fragment syntax, new JSON with comments mode.
• Debugging - Undefine env variables per session, better VARIABLES rendering.
• Extensions - Choose which extensions are active in your workspaces.
• Extension Authoring - Pre-release extension support, yo code can enable TSLint and checkJS.
• See announcement for details

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