From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code (2017)

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Setting up preferences

Setting up preferences - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Setting up preferences

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- [Instructor] Code provides us with quite a bit of flexibility to control the way that it behaves. That is, the preferences and settings that it has. So for example, right now I have the DOTNET project open and what I'd like to do is demonstrate where those settings are. If you hit the Command key, and hit the comma, settings.json will pop up. On the PC there's no equivalent shortcut, so just go to File, Preferences, Settings. Now I'd like you also to click on the Program file on the left hand side there, just to show you something that I'm going to modify. So, let's hop back to settings.json. When I was putting this course together, one of the things that we want to make sure that is very easy for the user to see is the text. So we want to make sure that the font is at a decent size, and for code, what I had to do is come into the settings to increase the font size and that's over here, editor.fontSize. So any type of setting that you want you can scroll down to find exactly what…

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