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# Embed Visual Studio Code in Business Central

[Read the post](https://jpearson.blog/2025/09/05/embed-visual-studio-code-in-business-central/) · James Pearson (James Pearson) · 2025-09-05 · 87 words · tier community · reviewed (checked by Opus)

> Embedding Visual Studio Code's Monaco editor in a Business Central control add-in provides a text viewing and editing experience for displaying large blocks of text such as integration requests, responses, or imported file contents.

## Key points

- Monaco editor can be embedded in a Business Central control add-in
- Improves on the WebPageViewer add-in for text handling
- Suitable for displaying large text blocks from integrations or imported files
- Provides both viewing and editing capabilities

## Quotes

- "We can embed Visual Studio Code's Monaco editor in a control add-in for a lovely text viewing and editing experience." (Describes the core capability and benefit of the solution being presented)
- "Maybe the request / response from some integration. Maybe the contents of a text file that has been imported." (Explains practical use cases where embedded text editors are valuable in Business Central)

## Context

- Features: Monaco editor embedding, Control add-in development

Source: James Pearson, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.