Visual Studio Code: Building an Extension

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.

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