Let’s see how we can achieve directly and apply it for to projects. In that case, you need to start the Visual Studio Code instance and open the respective folder. There could be several reasons to do that, for an instance you have already created a project in Visual Studio or you have currently running a project in Visual Studio but you want to continue writing code with Visual Studio Code Editor. In this post, I will show you how you can open your current project in Visual Studio Code directly from Visual Studio IDE. Both Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code are very powerful editors and almost everyone must be familiar with using these editors. This cross-platform development tool can run on – Windows, Linux, and OS X. Visual Studio Code, a lightweight code editor for developing and debug modern web and cloud applications.