The new release is an official VS Code C++ extension for Windows 10 and Linux systems, as well as macOS, but not Apple's new M1 Silicon Macs.

If you want to configure VS Code for Microsoft C++ and make sure that its compiler is working. Working solutions have been mentioned in this post.

Microsoft releases stable builds of its Visual Studio Code editor for Windows on Arm devices.

What you need to know Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code are now discoverable in the Microsoft Store. This marks the third new app from Microsoft to arrive after Microsoft Edge.