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Writing should follow the Microsoft Writing Style Guide.
You can use any text editor to edit Markdown files. However, we recommend using Visual Studio Code with the Learn Authoring Pack. Visual Studio Code should prompt you to install this extension the first time you open this workspace. The extension include a number of capabilities that will make contributing easier.
This repository runs a number of validations on all pull requests that must pass before the PR can be merged.
This validation is run by the Open Publishing system and identifies any build errors or warnings. The Learn Authoring Pack validates your documents in real time so you can fix problems before submitting a pull request. Issues will show in the Problems window, which you can enable via the View menu.
This validation runs to ensure that your Markdown conforms to the Markdown linting rules defined by markdownlint. The Learn Authoring Pack validates these rules in real time, showing issues in the Problems window.
This validation also runs spell check via CSpell. Misspelled or unrecognized words are reported in the Problems window.
Ideally, you would fix all issues reported by the Markdown linter. However, there are some Learn features that require violating certain rules. For example, repeated tabbed sections in documents will introduce duplicated headers in the document, which violates MD024. In these cases, you can disable the rule for portions of a document by using markdownlint-disable and markdownlint-enable comments.
<!-- markdownlint-disable MD024 -->
## Heading
## Heading
<!-- markdownlint-enable MD024 -->It's not uncommon for the spell checker to find a word it doesn't recognize, especially when writing about code. For example, by default, the keyword struct is not recognized by the spell checker. In the case where the spell checker does not recognize a valid word, add the word to cspell.json, either manually, or by right-clicking the word in Visual Studio Code (either in the Markdown file or in the Problems window) and select Spelling -> Add Words to CSpell Configuration. Be sure to include cspell.json in your pull request.