The overlap of confusion caused amongst the developer community – especially for those individuals who are new to it – about the difference between Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (let us refer to it as VSCode to avoid ambiguity) is something of a rite of passage.

The confusion is well placed as both the products have a great many similarities. For starters, they are both developed by Microsoft, they are both used to develop code and the most misleading similarity of them all is their names. But regardless of how similar they seem, they are...