1. NPM: https://nodejs.org/en/download/ or https://nodejs.dev/learn/how-to-install-nodejs
2. Typescript: npm install -g typescript
3. VSCode Types: npm install -g --save @types/vscode
4. NodeJS Types: npm install -g --save @types/node
5. To get Node:FS to compile npm i --save-dev @types/node
6. For the linter npm install vscode-languageserver

1. Download the source to a folder
2. Open VS Code an open the downloaded folder from step 1
3. Run npm install -g vsce in the terminal (if you don't your changes won't get applied)
4. Press F5 -- A new VS code window will open
5. In the new VS Code window open a QB64 file
6. This new VS Code window will have the QB64 extension enabled
7. Open settings and change the path to your QB64.exe: qb64.compilerPath
   • Note on Windows need to use \\ for path separators
     • Example: "qb64.compilerPath": "c:\\QB64\\qb64.exe"
     • This has been updated to work with '/' in windows (as of v0.2.0).
   • Linux and Mac OS should use / for path separators
8. The launch.json & extensions.json are now auto created.
   -- The files are not overwritten so any custom changes are safe.
9. The extension is now always rebuilt when debugging.

• The syntax settings are in the file syntaxes\qb64.Language.json
• The build tasks are in tasks folder

1. Open VS Code and add the folder from this project to the workspace
2. Open a terminal window in VS Code
3. Run npm install -g vsce from the terminal window (if not already installed)
4. Run npm i vscode-debugadapter from the terminal window (if not already installed)
5. Run vsce package from the terminal window
6. Right click the qb64*.vsix extension file and choose Install Extension
7. The project install will be placed in root of this project

The syntax settings can be found in /syntaxes/qb64.tmLanguage.json.

The build tasks are in /tasks folder.