
About myself and the goals of this course
Discover how to extend Visual Studio Code with extensions, search and install plugins like DMS worker, manage dependencies, and see installed extensions for Delphi development.
Learn to customize Visual Studio Code themes using the UI Theme Manager and extensions, filter by category, install color and icon themes from the marketplace, and set a dark theme.
Open the welcome page to access getting started tutorials, lesson projects, and streamlined options like open file or open folder, with extensions contributing guided walkthroughs.
Explore the object inspector to edit component properties in Delphi, such as captions and fonts, manage complex properties and assets, and generate events by jumping to the source code.
Learn to indent code in Visual Studio Code by selecting text and pressing tab or shift+tab, and adjust tab size, spaces versus tabs, and automatic indentation detection.
Navigate Delphi code with multiple Visual Studio Code options: structure outline in explorer, a dropdown to search types and methods, and a quick window to jump directly to a method.
Learn how to use live templates in Visual Studio Code, including triggering templates with typing, navigating placeholder fields with tab, and listing or inserting snippets via the command palette.
Learn to use code folding markers to collapse and expand source code sections based on structure, such as procedures, classes, and units, in Visual Studio Code for Delphi developers.
Learn how to comment code efficiently in Visual Studio Code for Delphi developers, using line comments and Delphi block comments with keyboard shortcuts and palette commands.
Change and customize syntax highlighting in Visual Studio Code for Delphi projects by selecting a language, adjusting token colors, foreground and background, and saving per-theme or per-file settings.
Open the project manager in Visual Studio Code to configure build configurations, target platforms, and manage Delphi project files.
Visual Studio Code is a fantastic free and open source tool from Microsoft, is cross platform, so you can use it on macOS, Windows and Linux, but also on web browsers, as it's developed using web technologies. In this course, we will show how can you translate your existing knowledge about RAD Studio into Visual Studio Code through a series of short videos. The videos are very specific and show you how to do the same things you are used to do in RAD Studio, but in Visual Studio Code. So if you are a Delphi developer using RAD Studio, you will learn how easy is to use Visual Studio Code. You can jump between lessons, as they don't depend on each other, and our goal is to keep expanding the course with new topics. Also, be aware that Visual Studio Code is not a visual development environment, so at TMS Software we have been adding that functionality through an extension, so you can create applications visually with it. We have followed the same RAD principles, so you will feel familiar with it, and please, if you want an specific topic to be covered, don't hesitate to contact us and we will add them.