1# Welcome to your VS Code Extension
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3## What's in the folder
4* This folder contains all of the files necessary for your extension
5* `package.json` - this is the manifest file in which you declare your language support and define
6the location of the grammar file that has been copied into you extension.
7* `syntaxes/TableGen.tmLanguage` - this is the Text mate grammar file that is used for tokenization
8* `language-configuration.json` - this the language configuration, defining the tokens that are used for
9comments and brackets.
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11## Get up and running straight away
12* Make sure the language configuration settings in `language-configuration.json` are accurate
13* press `F5` to open a new window with your extension loaded
14* create a new file with a file name suffix matching your language
15* verify that syntax highlight works and that the language configuration settings are working
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17## Make changes
18* you can relaunch the extension from the debug toolbar after making changes to the files listed above
19* 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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21## Add more language features
22* To add features such as intellisense, hovers and validators check out the VS Code extenders documentation at
23https://code.visualstudio.com/docs
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25## Install your extension
26* To start using your extension with Visual Studio Code copy it into the `<user home>/.vscode/extensions` folder and restart Code.
27* To share your extension with the world, read on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs about publishing an extension.