# IJulia Syntax Highlighting in VS Code

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-syntax-highlighting-in-vs-code/61655>\
**Category:** Tooling\
**Tags:** jupyter, vscode, ijulia\
**Created:** [May 22, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-syntax-highlighting-in-vs-code/61655 "2021-05-22T19:35:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 22, 2021, 7:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ijulia-syntax-highlighting-in-vs-code/61655/1 "2021-05-22T19:35:03Z")

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Hello,

I am starting a project with some friends and I’d really like to be able to use Julia in a Jupyter notebook to share results and explanations. I am using VSCode on Windows Subsystem for Linux 1 (WSL1). The problem is that Julia syntax highlighting does not appear to work on the current build of VS Code and the Jupyter extension.

I found one solution, described [here](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1620).  
However, I was not able to reproduce what is described as the fix because:

- When I go to `/home/USERNAME/.vscode-server/extensions/julialang.language-julia-1.1.40` there is no `julia.configuration.json`

- The location `/usr/share/code/resources/app/extensions/julia` did not exist (there was no `/code` directory in `/usr/share` so I had to create it. But I could only copy `package.json` and `syntaxes folder` to it because the configuration file does not appear to exist (see previous bullet).

Only copying over `package.json` and `syntaxes folder` does not appear to fix the problem (I still have no syntax highlighting).

Does anyone know where I can find `julia.configuration.json` or how I can get it to appear?