Visual Studio Code: Building an Extension

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Free Online Course: Visual Studio Code: Building an Extension provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Visual Studio Code: Building an Extension is taught by Ray Villalobos.

Overview
  • 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