| # Welcome to your VS Code Extension |
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| ## What's in the folder |
| * This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension |
| * `package.json` - this is the manifest file in which you declare your language support and define |
| the location of the grammar file that has been copied into you extension. |
| * `syntaxes/TableGen.tmLanguage` - this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization |
| * `language-configuration.json` - this the language configuration, defining the tokens that are used for |
| comments and brackets. |
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| ## Get up and running straight away |
| * Make sure the language configuration settings in `language-configuration.json` are accurate |
| * press `F5` to open a new window with your extension loaded |
| * create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language |
| * verify that syntax highlight works and that the language configuration settings are working |
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| ## Make changes |
| * you can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above |
| * you can also reload (`Ctrl+R` or `Cmd+R` on Mac) the VS Code window with your extension to load your changes |
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| ## Add more language features |
| * To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at |
| https://code.visualstudio.com/docs |
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| ## Install your extension |
| * To start using your extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the `<user home>/.vscode/extensions` folder and restart Code. |
| * To share your extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension. |
