Azure API Center for Visual Studio Code

Build, discover, try, and consume APIs using your favorite development environment.

Build

Create Azure API Center Service directly in VS Code from Command Palette (Azure API Center: Create API Center Service in Azure) or Tree View.

Make APIs you are building discoverable to others by registering them with API Center directly or using CI/CD pipelines in GitHub or Azure DevOps.

Shift-left API design conformance checks into Visual Studio Code with integrated linting support, powered by Spectral.

[Pre-Release](#pre-release) Manage API Analysis for Azure API Center.

Ensure that new API versions don't break API consumers with breaking change detection support, powered by Optic.

Use GitHub Copilot for Azure to design API specifications that comply with API Center governance, ensuring your APIs adhere to best practices and standards through AI assistance.

Generate OpenAPI specification file from API code.

Generate OpenAPI specification file from whole code project

'Get Spectral Rules' Language Model Tool to help generate compliant OpenAPI spec

API Center Portal View

Discover

Find the right API, fast from your organization's hand-crafted API catalog with API Center.

Also, you could open API Center in Azure Portal.

Explore

Explore APIs without leaving Visual Studio Code with inline API documentation and interactive 'try it' experience.

Explore API requests and responses with automated .http file generation powered by the REST Client extension for Visual Studio Code.

Generate markdown documentation for an API definition.

Consume

Generate API SDK clients for your favorite language including JavaScript, TypeScript, .NET, Python, Java, and more, powered by the same Microsoft Kiota engine that generates SDKs for Microsoft Graph, GitHub, and more.

Export API specification document for a specific API either from the tree view or from the command palette

Create M365 Copilot Declarative Agent

Manage API Authentication

Get deployment URL from deployment with 'Copy Runtime URL' command

Pre-Release

For the features with [Pre-Release] flag, you need to install pre-release version of the extension.

Contributing

There are many ways in which you can participate in the project, for example:

• Download our latest builds.
• Submit bugs and feature requests, and help us verify as they are checked in
• Review source code changes
• Review the documentation and make pull requests for anything from typos to new content

Telemetry

VS Code collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. If you don’t wish to send usage data to Microsoft, you can set the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting to false. Learn more in our FAQ.

Code of conduct

See Microsoft Open Source code of conduct.

Trademark

This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.

End User License Agreement

See EULA.

License

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the MIT license.