Do I really need Visual Studio or is VS Code enough?
A friend of mine got me thinking. "Can I run this code with just VS Code?" She's not a developer. She's like this super smart consultant / solution architect / know it all type. You know the type. The person who can solve just about any technical problem without writing a custom app. She sent me some code that she wanted to try out and she didn't want to do a full install on Visual Studio. I was on my phone so I looked at the code on Github and it looked at first like .NET framework solution. I looked in the csproj file and it was .NET Core but I couldn't confirm if she could just clone it and run it. So I'm trying it out. A few quick commands in terminal or PowerShell and we are up. git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-knowledge-mining.git cd .\azure-search-knowledge-mining\ cd '.\02 - Web UI Template\' code . Yep, spaces in the folder names. Oh boy! This isn't looking promising. But ...