ABAP Development in VS Code — Everything You Need to Know | First Release 2026
SAP has officially released ABAP Development Tools for Visual Studio Code — and in this video I cover everything you need to know about the first release.
We start with the install, walk through every feature that ships in v1, answer the most common questions developers are asking, and then build a real project from scratch so you can see it all in action.
Here's what we cover:
✅ How to install the ABAP extension from the VS Code Marketplace
✅ Source code editor — completion, formatter, navigation, hover docs
✅ ABAP Debugger — breakpoints, stepping, variables, call stack
✅ Unit Test integration — write, run, and evaluate tests in VS Code
✅ ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) — run checks, navigate to findings
✅ Repository browsing — file explorer, references, activation
✅ Transport Management — search, create, assign objects
✅ Common questions answered — Eclipse, scope, ABAP Cleaner
🔨 Demo project: Currency Converter (ZCL_CURRENCY_CONVERTER) — we build it live using every feature in the extension.
This is Part 1 of the Modern ABAP Development with VS Code series.
📌 Part 2 — ADT MCP Server & AI Integration:
📌 Part 3 — Build a RAP App with AI in VS Code:
🔗 Extension on VS Code Marketplace:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...
🕐 Timestamps
00:00 Intro — the backend/frontend gap problem
02:48 Feature overview — what ships in v1
05:37 Installing the ABAP extension
14:20 Q&A — Eclipse, scope, ABAP Cleaner
17:33 Demo project intro — what we're building
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