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# Visual Studio Code Documentation

You've found the Visual Studio Code documentation GitHub repository, which contains the content for the [Visual Studio Code documentation](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs).

Topics submitted here will be published to the [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com) portal.

If you are looking for the VS Code product GitHub repository, you can find it [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode).

## Index
1. [About Visual Studio Code](#visual-studio-code)
2. [Contributing to the documentation](#contributing-to-the-documentation)
3. [Feedback](#feedback)
4. [Documentation Issues](#documentation-issues)
5. [Editing](#editing)
6. [Publishing](#publishing)

## Visual Studio Code

[VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) is a lightweight source code editor and powerful development environment for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. It is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.

If you landed here looking for other information about VS Code, head over to [our website](https://code.visualstudio.com) for additional information.

## Contributing to the documentation

To contribute with new topics/information or make changes to existing documentation, see [contributing](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing) for instructions and guidelines.

## Feedback

If you want to give documentation feedback, please use the feedback control located at the bottom of each documentation page.

## Documentation Issues

To enter documentation bugs, please create a [new GitHub issue](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs/issues) (try to check if there isn't a topic about your issue already).

If you think the issue is with the VS Code product itself, please enter issues [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues).

## Editing

In order to edit the VS Code documentation, ensure that you have [Git](https://git-scm.com/downloads) installed.

Clone a copy of the repo:

```
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-docs.git
```

VS Code itself is great for reviewing and editing [Markdown](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/markdown) with nice preview support.

If you want to use VS Code, simply navigate to the `vscode-docs` directory and launch VS Code from there:

```
cd vscode-docs
code .
```

You can open any of the Markdown files and see a preview with the **Open Preview to the Side** button in the upper right of the editor.

![Markdown Preview Button](images/MDPreviewButton.png)

## Publishing

Steps for how to publish documentation changes can be found [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-website#publishing-a-documentation-change) in the (private) repository of the VS Code website.