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Visual Studio Code: Building an Extension

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Overview

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Customize your Visual Studio Code experience by building extensions. Learn how to make Visual Studio Code do what you want using web development approaches you already know.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Why build a VS Code extension?
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Getting Started
  • VS Code extension types
  • Preparing for development
  • Scaffolding an extension
2. Creating Theme Extensions
  • Theme extensions structure
  • Language definitions and themes
  • Options in the theme format
  • Modifying your theme
  • Publishing and unpublishing
  • Packaging extensions
3. Building Other Extensions
  • Creating a code snippet
  • Converting snippets as extensions
  • Using commands
  • Finding included commands
  • Adding multiple commands
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Ray Villalobos

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