2 ways to check your VS Code version
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This short article shows you 2 different ways to see your VS Code (Visual Studio Code) version. The first approach is to use your mouse via the VS Code graphics user interface (GUI) and the second one is to use the command line.
Using VS Code GUI
On Windows, you can see the VS Code version by navigating to Help > About from the menu bar.
If you’re using a Mac, just go to Code > About Visual Studio Code:
And you’ll see something like this:
You can find more information about the latest versions via Help > Release Notes.
Using Command Line
Open a terminal window and execute one of the following:
Further reading:
You can also check out our Visual Studio Code topic page for more tips and tricks to improve your producibility and coding experience.
How can I check what version/edition of Visual Studio is installed programmatically?
I could read registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 . However, it doesn’t give me any information about the edition of it — Professional/Ultimate or whatever.
How can I get the information with programmatically (preferably python)?
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In Visual Studio, the Tab ‘Help’-> ‘About Microsoft Visual Studio’ should give you the desired infos.
You can get the VS product version by running the following command.
Open the installed visual studio software and click the Help menu select the About Microsoft Visual studio—> Get the visual studio Version
if somebody needs C# example then:
Run the path in cmd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer>vswhere.exe
Its not very subtle, but there is a folder in the install location that carries the installed version name.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition — ENU
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional — ENU
You could find the install location from the registry keys you listed above.
Alternatively this will be in the registry at a number of places, eg:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\Setup\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition — ENU
There are loads of values and keys with the string in, you can find them by looking for «Microsoft Visual Studio 2010» in the Regedit>Edit>Find function.
You’d just need to pick the one you want and do a little bit of string matching.
How to get Visual Studio 2017 version number and edition
If you try to find information on the exact version of Visual Studio 2017 installed on your machine you might be confused by what you find when you look at the programs and features dialog.
First, you might expect a more detailed display name which also names the edition (like Professional or Enterprise). Next, if you know the version numbers from the past you might expect to see a number starting like “15.x.y.z” instead of “1.x.y.z” — after all Visual Studio 2015 had version numbers starting with “14.x.y.z” so a simple increment seems obvious. Instead you see something like “1.x.y.z”.
It’s important to understand that the entry shown in the screenshot above relates to the installer of Visual Studio 2017 and not to Visual Studio 2017 itself. The installer of Visual Studio 2017 can typically be found in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer .
Why is that? You might have noticed already that the overall installation experience of Visual Studio has changed dramatically with Visual Studio 2017 allowing not only very slick and quick installations but also side-by-side instances of Visual Studio 2017 . (See also this post.) These new capabilities lead to described behavior.
In case you need to find out the version number of Visual Studio on a PC programmatically there are two ways recommended.
Check visual studio and visual studio code version and edition
When you want to run or install certain software, the documentation may suggest that you check the software’s version because some software is dependent on OS and system requirements, CPU frequency, and supported architectures.Visual Studio 2012, for example, is only supported on Windows 7 and later.As a result, knowing it is important.
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The process of examining the version and edition of Visual Studio and VS Code that is installed on your computer is not overly complicated, and there are a variety of ways in which we may locate this information.Lets look each of them one by one.
Check Visual Studio Installed Version and Edition
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Method 1. Check Visual Studio Installed Version and Edition using Visual Studio IDE
You can easily check the version of visual studio installed on your computer.Steps are as follows.
1 Open your desire Visual Studio Application.
2 Click on Menu from Title bar
3 . Then click on About Microsoft Visual studio fig. Check visual studio version using IDE
Then you will get the version and edition of Microsoft Visual Studio either in first line or second line as shown below fig. check visual studio version and edition
In my case I have Enterprise Edition 2022(64 bit) and version is 17.2.6
Method 2. Check Visual Studio Installed Version and Edition using Command Line
For this you donot have to open visual studio.You simply need Command line.
1 Just open Command Prompt
2 Type the below command and press Enter
Please keep in mind that this only works for Visual Studio 2017 and later, as vswhere.exe only exists from Visual Studio 2017.
If you want to check edition type then type below command:
This will display you where visual studio is enterprise, community or professional.
Method 3. Check Visual Studio Installed Version using Apps & features Option
Using Apps & features Options we can check version of any installed software.Steps are as follow.
1 Click on Search text field and then type «Apps or remove programs» fig. search for add or remove programs
2 . Then select Apps & Features from the left pane.
Then you will get the list of software (default or third party) installed in your computer.
3 . Search for Visual Studio and then click on your installed Visual Studio . In my case I have Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 so I just clicked on it. 
fig. check-version-and-edition-using-app-feature-options
This will show the version of Visual Studio below the edition name of visual studio.
Check Visual Studio Code Version and Edition
There are various method.Lets look them one by one.
Method 1: Check Visual Studio Code Version using Visual Studio Code IDE
The steps are straightforward. It goes like this:
On Windows and Linux Operating System.
1 Open Visual Studio Code (vscode)
2 Click on Help on the title bar
3 Click on About from the list fig. Check visual studio code version and edition
On MacOS
1 Open Visual Studio Code(VSCode)
2 Click on Code
3 From the list , select About Visual Studio Code
Method 1: Check Visual Studio Code Version using Command Line
1 Open Command Prompt from anywhere you like
2 Type the following command
or fig. check vscode version using command line
Method 3. Check Visual Studio Code Installed Version using Apps & features Option
Using Apps & features Options we can check version of any installed software.Steps are as follow.
1 Click on Search text field and then type «Add or remove programs«. and select it from the list. fig. Search for «Add or remove programs«
2 Then select Apps & Features from the left pane.
Then you will get the list of software (default or third party) installed in your computer.
3 . Search for Visual Studio Code and then click on your installed Visual Studio Code. In my case I have Microsoft Visual Studio Code(User) so I just clicked on it. 
fig. check-version-and-edition-of-visual-studio-code
This will show the version of Visual Studio Code below the edition name visual studio Code.
Conclusion:
In this way we can check version and edition of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code IDE.