

Tip: You can get the same dropdown by running the Change Language Mode command ( ⌘K M (Windows, Linux Ctrl+K M)). This will bring up the Select Language Mode dropdown where you can select another language for the current file. However, at times you may want to change language modes, to do this click on the language indicator - which is located on the right hand of the Status Bar. In VS Code, we default the language support for a file based on its filename extension. Code navigation (Go to Definition, Find All References)Ĭhanging the language for the selected file.Syntax highlighting and bracket matching.The richness of support varies across the different languages and their extensions: Most language extensions also contain a summary of their core features in their README. Markdown - PHP - PowerShell - Python - R - Rust - SCSS - T-SQL - TypeScript.Ĭlick on any linked item to get an overview of how to use VS Code in the context of that language. These include: C++ - C# - CSS - Dart - Dockerfile - F# - Go - HTML - Java - JavaScript - JSON - Julia - Less. Learn about programming languages supported by VS Code.

Note: If you want to change the display language of VS Code (for example, to Chinese), see the Display Language topic. Go to the Marketplace or use the integrated Extensions view and search for your desired programming language to find snippets, code completion/IntelliSense providers, linters, debuggers, and more. Configure IntelliSense for cross-compiling.
