Microsoft Visual Studio Code The perfect swiss knife for your Journey
January 20, 2026

Microsoft Visual Studio Code The perfect swiss knife for your Journey

Florian Alex | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code (for his short name) his now my swissknife for a lot of my day-to-day job. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has replace notepad for scratch notes, temporary notes. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has replace a standard installation of Jupyter Notebook for research/lab using mainly markdown and python. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has replace command with is integrated terminal. Microsoft Visual Studio Code has unveil a great power with remote ssh and container dev. Last but not least with all the extensions available (docker, remote, kubernetes, Azure, Continue, GitLab, and all specialized extensions) Microsoft Visual Studio Code his now my all-in-one place control tower. Before using Microsoft Visual Studio Code I was opening 5 or 7 applications every morning now I open Team, Outlook and Microsoft Visual Studio Code and I can begun my Business Journey.

Pros

  • code edition
  • remote ssh
  • dev container
  • kubernetes and docker control tower
  • AI for code completion (with copilot or continue)
  • Terminal
  • Notebook (Jupyter)

Cons

  • some configuration like workspace are still more powerfull using json file instead of the UI.
  • embeded GitLab graph could be pretyer (I prefer the extension GitLab graph)
  • Less software installed on my computer (so less license, cost less)
  • I'm starting my business journey in a second instead of dozen of minutes before.
  • a lot of automation, organisation tools embeded the setup of your environment job
I give the maximum rating because it's perfect for my usage. I've found no caveats. Things could be improve (as always) but with the great and huge community of extension's developper most of the time I've found a way or an extension to answer to my question and problem. Let's keep going, I love Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
  • Notepad++
Notepad++ is a great tool, but has most of the power tips and tools of notepad++ are available into Microsoft Visual Studio Code I use less and less notepad++. It's more easier to "stay" into Microsoft Visual Studio Code, open a new window do my stuff and go for the next task.

Do you think Microsoft Visual Studio Code delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Visual Studio Code's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Visual Studio Code live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Microsoft Visual Studio Code go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Microsoft Visual Studio Code again?

Yes

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is very well suited when you are working with git.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code Workspace feature is a super idea when you are working with messy directories and/or project that are link to each other but not stored at the same place.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is very powerfull when used with a remote ssh-server. It make you feel like if you where on your local computer. The extension synchronisation is very good and the local/remote directories well shown.

Microsoft Visual Studio Code could be less efficient if you don't need to edit file, becasue this is the main and the baseline feature of this software, link to all the environmene tthat use the edited files.

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