This repository ("Code - OSS") is where all of us develop the VSBlocks product together with the community. Not only do we work on code and issues here, we also publish our roadmap, monthly iteration plans, and our endgame plans. This source code is available to everyone under the standard MIT license.
VSBlocks is based on VSCode.
VSBlocks is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft-specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license.
VSBlocks combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
VSBlocks is updated monthly with new features and bug fixes. You can download it for Windows, macOS, and Linux on VSBlocks's website. To get the latest releases every day, install the Insiders build.
There are many ways in which you can participate in this project, for example:
- Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify as they are checked in
- Review source code changes
- Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to additional and new content
If you are interested in fixing issues and contributing directly to the code base, please see the document How to Contribute, which covers the following:
- How to build and run from source
- The development workflow, including debugging and running tests
- Coding guidelines
- Submitting pull requests
- Finding an issue to work on
- Contributing to translations
- Ask a question on Stack Overflow
- Request a new feature
- Upvote popular feature requests
- File an issue
- Connect with the extension author community on GitHub Discussions or Slack
- Follow @code and let us know what you think!
See our wiki for a description of each of these channels and information on some other available community-driven channels.
Many of the core components and extensions to VSBlocks live in their own repositories on GitHub. For example, the node debug adapter and the mono debug adapter repositories are separate from each other. For a complete list, please visit the Related Projects page on our wiki.
VSBlocks includes a set of built-in extensions located in the extensions folder, including grammars and snippets for many languages. Extensions that provide rich language support (code completion, Go to Definition) for a language have the suffix language-features. For example, the json extension provides coloring for JSON and the json-language-features extension provides rich language support for JSON.
This repository includes a VSBlocks Dev Containers / GitHub Codespaces development container.
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For Dev Containers, use the Dev Containers: Clone Repository in Container Volume... command which creates a Docker volume for better disk I/O on macOS and Windows.
- If you already have VSBlocks and Docker installed, you can also click here to get started. This will cause VSBlocks to automatically install the Dev Containers extension if needed, clone the source code into a container volume, and spin up a dev container for use.
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For Codespaces, install the GitHub Codespaces extension in VSBlocks, and use the Codespaces: Create New Codespace command.
Docker / the Codespace should have at least 4 Cores and 6 GB of RAM (8 GB recommended) to run a full build. See the development container README for more information.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, John Charles Woods. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the MIT license.