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6. Installing and Managing Extensions

Alessandro Del Sole1 
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Cremona, Italy
 

Extensibility is one of the key features in Visual Studio Code, because you can add tools, languages, code snippets, debuggers, key bindings, and themes. Especially about languages, Visual Studio Code allows for extending the code editor with specific syntax support, which can also include IntelliSense, code snippets, and code refactoring.

This all means that Visual Studio Code has open support for any language and any tool on any platform, opening to infinite development scenarios. This chapter explains how to find and install extensions and how to manage ...

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