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I Hate the F7 Key - I always miss the F7 key to compile my code ending up hitting the other keys around.

There are several reasons/stories/tribes in favor of both modes Ligth and Dark, and I will not discuss this in here. Using Metaeditor a lot and also for very long hours with light backgrounds spreads my attention away from the code and Syntax Highlighting gets weak.

Dark Mode - I always used dark backgrounds for everything I do in computers/devices.

If at any point you feel that this "is not for me", don't proceed! So, please read the whole article before you take any action.

I prepared all this article as detailed as possible, but it is possible that in some step you will get confused or lost. Additionally, if you are not familiar with Windows Powershell or JSON notation you may have a hard time configuring VSC to your needs.

Just a one-phrase background, I have more than 30 years of programming experience, and started programming - there were no source code editors at that time - in Applesoft BASIC's Command Line and saving my code in a tape recorder :DĪnd, just a last word before we begin, if you are a novice programmer (or even a good programmer, but new to MQL5)I strongly recommend to you to stick with Metaeditorfor a while until you have enough comfort and experience to search for a better IDE. I think that I accomplished that with VSC. One of the main concerns I had was to have the ability to get the compiling results within the IDE in some way, so I don't ever have to switch back and forth between VSC and Metaeditor to get my things done and ready to run. When I started to look around my plan was to switch completely from Metaeditor to a 3rd party solution. I will not discuss here what was my approach to finally choose VSC as my official MQL5 IDE, the goal of this post is to present a complete guide for those of you who want to experiment a better IDE and eliminating some feature and productivity limitations presented by Metaeditor, that in my personal programming experience made me search for a better alternative.

After reviewing a couple of alternative IDEs/Source Code Editors that could be used to code and compile in MQL5 instead of using the original Metaeditor IDE, I decided to go with Visual Studio Code, from Microsoft.