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Visual Studio Code vs Windows Package Manager CLI

A side-by-side look at Visual Studio Code and Windows Package Manager CLI. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code

Development

Visual Studio Code is a free, open-source, lightweight code editor developed by Microsoft. It supports debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and Git control. VS Code has a large extension ecosystem allowing developers to add new languages, themes, debuggers and tools.

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Windows Package Manager CLI

Windows Package Manager CLI

Os & Utilities

The Windows Package Manager CLI (winget) is a command line tool that allows you to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 computers. It provides an interface to manage apps from the command line similar to apt or yum on Linux.

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