Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code has become almost the defacto editor for multiple programming languages, by providing extensions for automation development you can leverage this tool easily.

Robocorp provides extensions for Visual Studio Code that bring you all the Robocorp features into your favorite editor.

• Robocorp Code extension - you can create, run, and debug robots, publish to Control Room, read secrets from a Control Room vault, use work items, locate UI elements in browsers and desktop applications using a visual inspector, and enjoy other powerful features.
• Robot Framework Language Server extension provides code completion, syntax validation and highlighting, code formatting, and other powerful robot development features for Robot Framework based automations.

Free. Developing with Visual Studio Code is completely free. No strings attached.

Installing extensions

Robocorp extensions will take care of all the dependencies you need to develop robots. Install both the Robocorp Code and Robot Framework Language Server extensions for Visual Studio Code from the Visual Studio Marketplace to get full benefits.

Have a look at what development with Visual Studio Code extensions looks like: