# Announcing: Chef Extensions for Visual Studio Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/announcing-chef-extensions-for-visual-studio-code/7345>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/announcing-chef-extensions-for-visual-studio-code/7345 "2015-11-18T22:32:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![stuartpreston](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/stuartpreston/32/1771_2.png) [@stuartpreston](https://discourse.chef.io/u/stuartpreston)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/announcing-chef-extensions-for-visual-studio-code/7345/1 "2015-11-18T22:32:45Z")

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Ohai Chefs!

It was great to catch up with so many of you at both the Seattle and London Community Summits that I went to!

Today, Microsoft have open sourced their popular code editor, Visual Studio Code (see [https://code.visualstudio.com/](https://code.visualstudio.com/)) and provided it with a new extensibility framework, and over the past few weeks I’ve been working on a Chef extension to make the cookbook authoring experience more delightful, including:

- Syntax/keyword colorization support for Chef/Chef Provisioning DSL
- Snippets - autocompleting code snippets for every resource built into Chef Client 12.5
- Rubocop static code analysis/style highlighting

The extension can be downloaded from within Visual Studio Code BETA (which you’ll need to update to if you had a previous version). More details and screenshots can be found on my blog: [http://stuartpreston.net/2015/11/announcing-chef-extension-for-visual-studio-code](http://stuartpreston.net/2015/11/announcing-chef-extension-for-visual-studio-code)

Of course we open-sourced the extension too at [http://github.com/pendrica/vscode-chef](http://github.com/pendrica/vscode-chef) so if you want to, give it a go and let us know what you think. Feedback, contributions and grumbles are all welcome!

thanks,  
Stuart

Stuart Preston  
Technical Director, Pendrica  
@stuartpreston

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**Author:** ![btm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/btm/32/1089_2.png) [@btm](https://discourse.chef.io/u/btm)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/announcing-chef-extensions-for-visual-studio-code/7345/2 "2015-11-19T16:18:13Z")

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Thanks Stuart!

I loved that I could install this just by hitting ctrl+p then typing “ext install chef” in Code.