Here's the icon previous to the 2017 change: Pre-2017 VS Code Icon (source: Microsoft). An October 2017 post titled The Icon Journey provides more background and design ... handy for quickly checking ...

Risking developer wrath, Microsoft has again changed the Visual Studio Code icon in the May 2019 edition, version 1.35. An icon change in 2017, stirred up quite a bit of opinionated feedback, and ...