You can click on either the yellow marked icon or orange marked icon to create a file or a folder respectively. You can click on any file from the list to open it on the Code editor as you can see in the screenshot below. All the files and directories inside your project directory should be listed as marked in the screenshot below. Now select a project directory and click on Open as marked in the screenshot below. To open a project directory, click on File > Open Folder… as marked in the screenshot below. Then select a file and click on Open as marked in the screenshot below. You can also use the keyboard shortcut + o. To open a single file, you click on File > Open File… as marked in the screenshot below.

You can open a single file or a project directory on Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code should start as you can see in the screenshot below. You should see the Visual Studio Code icon as marked in the screenshot below.

Now you can go to the Application Menu and look for Visual Studio Code there. & sudo rm -rfv visual-studio-code-bin /

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