This enables you to quickly navigate to a particular part of the file. The ‘Go to symbol in File’ in VSC is similar to the Eclipse Quick Outline function. In order to have code completion in VSC for Apex, you need to have the Salesforce DX extension installed. This is code completion function based on actual analysis of the current file in your workspace. Using the ctrl/cmd+space command in VSC will bring up IntelliSense which is like the Eclipse ‘Content Assist’. This is similar to the ‘Open Resource’ function in Eclipse. This makes working with your workspace very efficient. Similarly, you can use the ctrl/cmd+P command to quickly navigate to a file. So, this is similar to how ‘Quick Access’ in Eclipse works. A very common command that you will use in VSC is ctrl/cmd+shift+P You do not need to do all the prerequisite steps that you needed to do in Eclipse to get a particular project and its extensions working. You simply clone a repo from Git or another source control system, and you open up the folder with VSC and the installed extensions that pertain to the code in the folder will be available to use. You no longer need to create particular workspaces, with VSC. There are no more dialogs or wizards, with VSC.

Also, the amount of extensions available in VSC is far more than Eclipse. This is in contrast to Eclipse because that IDE comes with different packages and some of the packages by default did not have the marketplace enabled. It is through the marketplace that you install Salesforce DX. The extension marketplace is built right into VSC. There are no more custom perspectives rather, there is just the side bar, panel and the editors pane. The UI is far more standardised and simplified.

The UI for VSC is radically different from Eclipse. There are far more themes in Visual Studio Code than Eclipse. Visual Studio Code (VSC) has multiple themes available, instead of just 2. It is free, open source and runs on Mac, Linux and Windows. VSC is a light weight source code editor created by Microsoft to make it easier and more efficient to edit source code. Visual Studio Code is not Visual Studio. The motivation for this is that since the release of Salesforce DX, the development tool of choice switches from Eclipse to Visual Studio Code. The differences and similarities between the two tools will be highlighted in detail. This session will discuss ‘ what is it like switching from Eclipse to Visual Studio Code editor?’.

Key Terms: VSC, Eclipse IDE, debugging, extensions, source editor Details: ‘ VS Code IDE for Eclipse Users’

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