Why: Converting a verbatim string literal to a regular string literal can help save space. Converting a regular string literal to a verbatim string literal can provide more clarity. How-to: Place your caret on …

If a string starts with ^, the string content will be inserted as-is, not stringified. You can use this to specify snippets for numbers and booleans. Note that defaultSnippets is not part of the JSON schema …

Variables reference Visual Studio Code supports variable substitution in Debugging and Task configuration files, and for some select settings. Variable substitution is supported inside some key …

Terminal Appearance The look of Visual Studio Code's terminal can be customized extensively. Sapphire theme with custom Starship prompt using the font Hack with Nerd Font symbols Text style …

Learn how to configure debugging in Visual Studio Code with launch.json, including attributes, variable substitution, and compound configurations.

Manual installation To manually install shell integration, the VS Code shell integration script needs to run during your shell's initialization. Where and how to do this depends on the shell and OS you're using. …

C++ extension settings reference The C++ extension settings are highly configurable. This article explains the schema for the c_cpp_properties.json file. For general information about settings in VS …

Discover, add, update, disable and uninstall Visual Studio Code extensions (plug-ins) through the Extension Marketplace.

Java refactoring and Source Actions Visual Studio Code provides many options to refactor your source code as well as Source Actions to generate code and fix issues while you're coding. To access them, …

Terminal Advanced Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal has many advanced features and settings, such as Unicode and emoji support, custom keyboard shortcuts, and automatic replies. This topic …