Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00) Download .ics

Special Event!
Visual Studio Code for 4D Developers: Code, Debug and Copilot – Mathieu Ferry and Damien Fuzeau

4D has always come with a very capable Code Editor in its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that has a wide set of features for highly productive application development such as intelligent code completion, code navigation, debugging, searching, macros, and more.

Since the introduction of Project Mode, where each piece of code (method, class…) is stored in external text files, 4D has been adding features to support using other code editing environments such as Visual Studio Code (aka VS Code.) VS Code is an extremely popular, free IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS that includes embedded version control with Git, debugging and many useful extensions that add functionality. You can super-charge your 4D application development capabilities by leveraging some of the features available in VS Code but not yet in the 4D IDE, like integrated source control and GitHub Copilot.

In this 4DMethod special event, Mathieu Ferry and Damien Fuzeau join us to demonstrate how to use VS Code in your 4D application development. This will be a great opportunity for the 4D developer community to give feedback directly to 4D about current integration with VS Code and to discuss upcoming potential features that 4D is considering for its IDE.

Agenda:

• The basics: VS Code is a free powerful editor that can be used in parallel to 4D IDE
• Working with Git: VS Code provides a deep integration with Git.
• Debugging with VS Code
• Copilot: modern coding with 4D and AI
• Further ideas for leveraging a LLM

Note: as this is a special event, the meeting will not have the usual introductory segments such as news and 4D Blog article highlights. We will get right to the good stuff!!! 🤓

This meeting is being hosted live with real-time discussion on Zoom.  Click here to join…

To follow along with the meeting slideshow, access it here when it is available…
Meeting slides
4D & VS Code Part 1
4D & VS Code Part 2
4D & VS Code Part 3
4D & VS Code Part 4
AI generated Meeting Summary
Copilot Instructions and Prompts for 4D language

Have comments or questions after the meeting?  Either post them here or to discuss.4d.com.

If you cannot attend the live Zoom meeting, no worries!  A recording will be posted to the 4DMethod Youtube channel after the meeting ends.