From the course: Learning Visual Studio Code (2017)

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- [Instructor] In the beginning of this course, we referenced some of the icons here, in the view bar, but we didn't go deep into it. Now in the next chapter, we're going to dive in more, and demonstrate how to use Get Here and then also the debugging feature. But for now, I want to talk a little bit more about these three, the Explorer, the Search, and the Extensions. If we click on the Explorer, the side bar disappears. Clicking on it, essentially toggles it. But that happens when we already have the viewlets showing in Explorer. If we're choosing to search, and then we click on the Explorer, then the viewlet shows up. The side bar is not going to disappear. That's just something to keep in mind if you're clicking on it and you're wondering, "Wait, what's going on, why did it disappear?" Well that's because you already had focus on it. Using the Explorer is fairly straightforward. Visual Studio code is a folder-based editor. So it functions based on the structure of your folder…

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