Now click on Environment Variables you should see something as shown in the image below. If you don't find system on your control panel just type 'system' on the search bar which you can find in top right corner of the control panel.Ĭlick on Advanced system setting on right side you should see system properties as shown in the image below. Open 'Control Panel' from your start menu and click on System. Now right click and copy or just press 'Ctrl + C' on your keyboard. Now you have to copy the folder destination which is above the page as shown below. Now open 'This PC' and open 'local Disk C' you should see mingw file and click on bin folder. Once you complete the installation, you should see something like the image below. You should see something like shown in the image below. Now click Installation on top left corner and then choose Apply Changes. Click on install and choose your directory where the software should be installed and click continue.Īfter installing, click on continue and right click on every checkbox and choose mark for installation.Īfter checking all checkboxes you should see something like image below. Open the installer, you should see something like the below image. Type mingw on google and choose following first link as shown in the image below or Click Here. Now we have successfully installed code editor but we need a compiler to compile and output our code, for that we will be installing MinGW. Now we have to install another extension called Code Runner. If you don't see the extension search C/C++ and you will find it. Now click on C/C++ extension from Microsoft as shown in the below image. Click on the button where red arrow is pointing in above image. Once you have installed visual studio code, now its time to install some extensions. Step 3: Download extensions for visual studio code.

This step is easy, accept the agreement and click next.Ĭheck the following options as shown in above image and click next and install. Now download the installer according to your operating system.

Type vscode on your browser and click on the first link of the page, or just click here. In this blog post you will learn how to set up visual studio code on your local environment for C and C++, this can get tricky but if you follow step by step you can set it up easily. If you find a language that isn't supported by an existing extension, the open nature of the extensions system means you can build one. Several common languages come supported by default (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, etc), and others gain support by adding integrated extensions. It currently supports hundreds of programming languages and file formats. Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git. Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS.

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