Kendo UI Productivity Tools for Visual Studio Code

The Kendo UI Productivity Tools for Visual Studio Code is an extension for Visual Studio Code that enhances the application development experience with Kendo UI for jQuery.

As its primary advantage, the VS Code extension facilitates the creation of projects through a wizard directly in Visual Studio Code.

1. Get the Extension

You can get the extension in either of the following ways:

• Go to the Visual Studio Marketplace.
• In VS Code, open the Extensions tab, search for Kendo UI Productivity Tools, and click Install.

2. Create the Kendo UI Project

To create a Kendo UI for jQuery project:

1. Press Ctrl+Shift+P (for Windows or Linux), or Cmd+Shift+P (on Mac) to open the VSCode extension launcher.

2. Type/Select Kendo UI Template Wizard: Launch and press Enter to launch the extension.

   

3. Enter a project name and select the location.

   

4. Choose the desired template.

   The Kendo UI Template Wizard for Visual Studio Code comes with several built-in templates for some of the most popular components like Grid, Chart, and Form. These templates allow you to add pages by using the widgets with a single click.

   Additionally, you can create a Blank project and the extensions will generate a page with all of the necessary stylesheets and a single heading element.

   

5. Apply the desired styling by selecting a theme.

   To style your application, select one of the built-in Sass-based themes: Default, Bootstrap, or Material.

   

6. Click the Create button to finish the setup.

7. Run the project:

   1. Install the NPM dependencies by typing npm install in the terminal.
   2. Run the application by typing npm start in the terminal.

3. Check the Project Structure

• The HTML files are located in the pages folder of the project.
• The script files are located in the src folder of the project.
• The stylesheets are included in the head element of each individual page.

The scripts are automatically injected into the HTML pages only if the script name matches the page name. For example, if the page is called MyPage.html, then the script file in the src folder must be called MyPage.js.

4. Generate the Snippets

The Kendo UI Productivity Tools for Visual Studio Code extension can generate code snippets with sample configuration for the Kendo UI widgets. To add a code snippet for a Kendo UI widget:

1. Open a js file or add a <script> tag.
2. Type kj-short. Alternatively, type kj-component—where you replace "component" with the name of the desired component, for example, kj-dropdownlist.

See Also

• First Steps with Kendo UI for jQuery
• Downloading the Bundles
• Using Script License Code