

You should see the Hello World from HelloWorld! notification showing up.

Run the Hello World command from the Command Palette ( ⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)) in the new window: This will compile and run the extension in a new Extension Development Host window. Run the generator and fill out a few fields for a TypeScript project: yo code # ? What type of extension do you want to create? New Extension (TypeScript) # ? What's the name of your extension? HelloWorld # Press to choose default for all options below # ? What's the identifier of your extension? helloworld # ? What's the description of your extension? LEAVE BLANK # ? Initialize a git repository? Yes # ? Bundle the source code with webpack? No # ? Which package manager to use? npm # ? Do you want to open the new folder with Visual Studio Code? Open with `code` The generator scaffolds a TypeScript or JavaScript project ready for development. Make sure you have Node.js and Git installed, then install Yeoman and VS Code Extension Generator with: npm install -g yo generator-code In this topic, we'll teach you the fundamental concepts for building extensions.
