The January release of Visual Studio Code 1.9 is out with a bunch of fixes, updates and new features, including a new interactive playground that lets developers try out editing features immediately.

This feature sets Project IDX apart from traditional development environments and aligns it with existing cloud-based environments like Replit and Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code Spaces.

If you then launch Visual Studio Code from inside that directory it will open the main C# file for your project, along with the new Solution Explorer view for your code.