1# Welcome to your VS Code Extension 2 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. 10 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 16 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 20 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 24 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.