A Visual FoxPro language extension for Visual Studio Code

• Microsoft Visual Studio Code website: https://code.visualstudio.com/

VFP Code in VS Code

• When you open a PRG file in vs Code, the default display is like this

VFP Syntax highlighting (Colorization)

• Download vfp_tmlanguage_generator.prg, run in vfp9, and click "Ok" to install.

Using the "Dark Theme" it displays like

Personalized Color Theme (for VFP Extension)

• If you want have more colors or personalize your theme: take a look at...

Download vfp_tmtheme_generator.prg, personalize, run in vfp9, and click "Ok" to install.

The personalized theme looks like

VFP9 integration

To start using VS Code as the external editor (Modify Command, Modify File) add the following line to the config.fpw file

TEDIT=/N C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe

Uninstall

vfp_tmlanguage_generator.prg : creates a uninstaller script: "vfp_tmlanguage\uninstall vfp language.cmd"

• which contains:

  rd /S/Q %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\vfp\

  (Another way using Windows Explorer is to delete %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions\vfp\)

Update April 7, 2016 Snippets added

SNIPPETS

Update September 17, 2017

Visual Studio Code (insiders) now support files.encoding

License

MIT © Francis FAURE

Enjoy!