>>>>Anyone using Visual Studio Code, and be willing to share how you use it. Things it can and can't do would also be helpful.
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>>>>https://code.visualstudio.com/
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>>>>I realize it is not Visual Studio.
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>>>>Thanks in advance......
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>>>You can do Linux development in Windows using the full version of Visual Studio.
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>>>Use a VM guest in a Linux machine, and map a network drive to a Linux path. Use a cross-compiler to generate Linux code using GCC, allowing GDB as a debugger.
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>>>You can also install CYGWIN or MinGW and do local testing in Visual Studio using GCC and GDB natively in Windows since VS 2015, and then later migrate to Linux to test.
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>>Thanks Rick for this.
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>>For right now I am looking into the Visual Studio Code as it is supported and ties in with SalesForce, and can be used as the code editor for Salesforce. At this point I am not sure the full blown Visual Studio is used with SalesForce.
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>>I wonder if using Visual Studio Code will give me an easier path to the full blown Visual Studio if needed down the road.
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>Visual Studio Community Edition is free for non-commercial use. You can download and install and test and use on any open source project.
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>I've never found a better developer environment than VS. It's the model I'm using in writing my own.

Thanks Rick.