
The official Microsoft-branded release is customized with Microsoft-specific functionality, including a trademark, an extensions gallery, a proprietary C# debugger, and telemetry. VS Code is indeed built upon an open source codebase. The difference is in the build process.Ĭhris Dias, a Microsoft developer on the VS Code project, makes a comparison between VS Code and, for instance, the Chrome browser and its open source "upstream" project, Chromium.

Yet when you download the VS Code application from Microsoft, you'll find that your download is licensed under the Microsoft Software License. VS Code's source code is available on GitHub.

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