First install homebrew then. $ brew update $ brew cask install visual-studio-code $ '/usr/local/bin/code'. Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform. Visual Studio Code (or VScode) has become popular among developers – the ones who aren’t put off by the fact that it’s a Microsoft product, anyway. Like Atom and Sublime Text, it offers a. Mar 10, 2020 Microsoft's open-source code editor is now notarised by Apple so the nagging of macOS Catalina should be a thing of the past with the February release of Visual Studio Code. Among Catalina's many delights, Apple introduced a requirement that Mac software distributed outside of the cosy walled garden of Apple's App Store must be signed off. VS Code should be setup to use Python. A Python virtual environment should be created for the VS Code workspace. Python should be upgraded on macOS to the desired version which you want to use in the VS Code workspace. Here in my case it’s 3.8.5. Steps to upgrade Python in workspace. Launch the Visual Studio Code python workspace.
Due to notarization requirements, currently you may face issue while opening Visual Studio code on MacOS Catalina. To resolve this, go to
System Preferences -> Security & Privacy. Click the lock to make changes -> Provide your password. You’ll get a notification at the bottom that the “App was blocked from opening because it is not from an identified developer”.
click ‘open anyway’.
Check the screen-shot below:
Visual Studio Code Catalina 2020
This would open Visual Studio code on your Mac.
Here is the Visual Studio Code Requirements Page:
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Here is the Apple notarising documentation: