...Using the LSP ( Language Server Protocol ) and DAP ( Debug Adapter Protocol ) communication protocols , both widely used and extensible to other IDEs on the market, such as Atom, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Eclipse Theia, Vim and Emacs. When starting VS Code with the TDS-VSCode extension installed, open (or create) the main folder that contains (or will contain) your source and resource files. We had reports of encode problems opening fonts previously saved in TDS, this is because the original VSCode encode is UTF8 and the TDS-VSCode encode is another one.