spences10 / vscode-vba

VBA syntax highlighting and snippets for use in VSCode

VSCode VBA

• VSCode VBA
  • Syntax Highlighting
  • Snippets
    • Basic code
  • Installation
  • Contributing
  • Contacts
  • Links
  • Handy links

Syntax Highlighting

This package provides syntax highlighting and snippets of VBA.

Based off an import of the VBScript.tmLanguage file from the Sublime Text VBScript repository.

Snippets

Basic code

• dim declarations
• if/else
• for/while
• sub/function with errHandler
• case

Installation

Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install vba

Contributing

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Any contributions, large or small, major features, bugfixes and integration tests are welcomed and appreciated but will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed.

Contacts

You can contact me in the following ways:

• Mail : [email protected]
• Github : spences10

Links

• Source Code
• Market

Handy links

I struggled to find how to generate a token after not doing anything with this project for well over a year:

To get to your token creation, go here:

• https://YOUR_USER_NAME.visualstudio.com/_details/security/tokens

Create a token:

• Name: vsce
• Organisation: All accessible organizations
• show all scopes, select:
  • Marketplace
    • Check Acquire and Manage

Publish with CLI:

# login
vsce login <publisher name>
# install the things
npm i
# use the token created in earlier step
vsce package
# myExtension.vsix generated
# bump version
vsce publish minor # | major | patch
# vsce publish major, minor or patch
vsce publish -p <add created token here>

If you get ERROR Failed request: (401) see here:

• microsoft/vscode-vsce#11

Some good documentation on publishing with the CLI:

• https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension

vscode-vba's Issues

Have a question about suffix?

I have pasted the VBA code into vscode editor,
and I have installed the VScode VBA, I am just curious, what suffix should I name it? and then it can show highlight.

Code that start with rem get highlighted as VBA comment

Issue Type: Bug

Code that start with rem or Rem gets highlighted as VBA Comment.

Extension version: 1.4.0
VS Code version: Code 1.44.2 (ff915844119ce9485abfe8aa9076ec76b5300ddd, 2020-04-16T16:36:23.138Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 6.3.9600

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz (4 x 2712)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on oop_rasterization: disabled_off protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_renderer: disabled_off_ok video_decode: enabled viz_display_compositor: enabled_on viz_hit_test_surface_layer: disabled_off_ok webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	7.90GB (3.62GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Keyword highlighting is missing a number of tokens

The list of keyword tokens seems incomplete. The full list can be found here:

https://github.com/rubberduck-vba/RubberduckWeb/blob/master/RubberduckWeb/RubberduckWeb/VBA/FormattedCodeBlockBuilder.cs#L121-L290

(note, operators get keyword highlighting there)

Extension is not enabled after loading

Environment:

• Using VSCode 1.9.1 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 as a standard user
• Running VSCode from the %LocalAppData%\Code folder
• The VBA extension is successfully installed and appears in the Extensions pane.

Problem:

I can see that the extension is dimmed (disabled), and the Reload button is visible.

Steps taken to resolve (unsuccessfully)

1. Clicking Reload does reload the VSCode window, but does not alter the state of the extension: it remains disabled and the Reload button is still visible. Closing VSCode and restarting it also does not alter the state.
2. I have examined the Console output in the Developer Tools pane, and no information there seems to suggest any issues with the extension being loaded.

Other possibly relevant info

These are all the other extensions I have installed. All except VBA are enabled and seem to function as expected:

• beautify, 0.8.8
• bootstrap-3-snippets, 0.0.9
• code-settings-sync, 2.5.0
• csharp, 1.7.0
• debugger-for-chrome, 2.5.3
• html-css-class-completion, 1.0.3
• html-snippets, 0.1.0
• JavaScriptSnippets, 1.4.0
• Material-theme, 1.0.3
• PowerShell, 0.9.0
• regex, 0.0.7
• tslint, 0.8.1
• unique-lines, 1.0.0
• vba, 1.0.13
• vba-snippets, 1.0.1
• vscode-color, 0.2.3
• vscode-eslint, 1.2.6
• vscode-icons, 7.2.0
• vscode-instant-markdown, 1.0.0
• vscode-vba-icons, 1.0.2
• xml, 1.7.0

Syntax highlighting does not work on multi-line comments (MINOR)

Screen capture, VsCode on the left and Excel Vba IDE on the right.

As you can see, the second line in VsCode is not highlighted correctly.

Support for VBA refactoring

hi
Please consider adding support for refactoring operation: rename, extract variable, extract function etc.

Here is description of implementing rename operation
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/language-support#_rename-symbols

[ENHANCEMENT]Definition jump and Hover

Implementing Definition jumps and Hover will make VBA programming easier.

Definition jump moves the cursor to the location where Function And Sub is defined.
Hover pops up the definition of Function And Sub.

Thanks.

support for params completion

for example, Selection.xxx.