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# Swift for Visual Studio Code

This extension adds language support for Swift to Visual Studio Code, providing a seamless experience for developing Swift applications on all supported platforms. It supports:
This extension adds language support for Swift to Visual Studio Code, providing a seamless experience for developing Swift applications on all supported platforms. It supports features such as:

* Code completion
* Jump to definition, peek definition, find all references, symbol search
* Error annotations and apply suggestions from errors
* Jump to definition, peek definition, find all references and symbol search
* Error annotations and fix suggestions
* Automatic generation of launch configurations for debugging with [LLDB DAP](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=llvm-vs-code-extensions.lldb-dap)
* Automatic task creation
* Package dependency view
* A Project Panel to quickly run actions and view dependencies
* Test Explorer view

> **Note**
> Most features of the Swift for Visual Studio Code extension only work with projects that build with Swift Package Manager. These projects will have a `Package.swift` file in their root folder. Support for Xcode projects (`.xcodeproj`) is limited.

### Creating New Projects
<img src="assets/walkthrough/images/createNewProject.gif" width="700">

### Building and Running Executables
<img src="assets/walkthrough/images/runExecutable.gif" width="700">

### Debugging Executables
<img src="assets/walkthrough/images/debugExecutable.gif" width="700">

### Running Tests
<img src="assets/walkthrough/images/runTests.gif" width="700">

# Documentation

The [getting started guide](https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/getting-started-with-vscode-swift.html) and [official documentation](https://docs.swift.org/vscode/documentation/userdocs) for this extension are available on [swift.org](https://www.swift.org).
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