Create a new ActionScript project in Visual Studio Code that targets Adobe AIR

1. Install the ActionScript & MXML extension for Visual Studio Code.

2. Create a new directory for your project, and open it in Visual Studio Code.

   To open a directory, select the File menu → Open... or click Open Folder button in the Explorer pane.

3. Choose an ActionScript SDK for your workspace.

4. Create a file named asconfig.json at the root of your project, and add the following content:

   {
   	"config": "air",
   	"compilerOptions": {
   		"output": "bin/Main.swf"
   	},
   	"application": "src/Main-app.xml",
   	"files":
   	[
   		"src/Main.as"
   	]
   }

   A mobile AIR project targeting iOS or Android should set config to "airmobile" instead. The "air" value is for a desktop AIR project that targets Windows or Mac.

   Note: If you are compiling your SWF with Apache FlexJS, you should specify the targets compiler option. Compiling with other SDKs does not require targets to be specified.

5. Create directory named src.

6. Inside src, create a file named Main.as, and add the following code:

   package
   {
   	import flash.display.Sprite;
   	import flash.text.TextField;
   
   	public class Main extends Sprite
   	{
   		public function Main()
   		{
   			var tf:TextField = new TextField();
   			tf.text = "Hello World";
   			addChild(tf);
   		}
   	}
   }

7. Inside src, create an AIR application descriptor file named Main-app.xml. AIR application descriptors may be configured with many more elements, but you can use the following simple content as a starting point:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
   <application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/24.0"> 
   	<id>com.example.Main</id> 
   	<versionNumber>0.0.0</versionNumber> 
   	<filename>Main</filename> 
   	<name>Main</name> 
   	<initialWindow>
   		<content>[Path to content will be replaced by asconfigc]</content> 
   		<visible>true</visible>
   	</initialWindow>
   </application>

   Be sure to update the version number in the namespace http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/24.0 to match the version of Adobe AIR that you are targeting.

Next Steps

• Build an ActionScript project in Visual Studio Code
• Debug an Adobe AIR desktop application
• Debug an Adobe AIR mobile application