syntax-highlighting-markdown.md

Syntax highlighting for code snippets in Markdown

Fenced code blocks are an easy way to enable syntax highlighting for your code snippets. The general format for fenced code blocks is:

```alias
...
your code goes in here
...
```

The alias after the initial three '`' characters defines the syntax highlighting to be used. The following is a list of commonly used programming languages on the Bot Framework platform and the matching label:

Language or CLI	Language alias
Bot Framework CLI	azurecli
AzCopy	azcopy
C++	cpp
C#	csharp
F#	fsharp
Java	java
JavaScript	javascript
JSON	json
NodeJS	nodejs
Objective-C	objc
PHP	php
PowerShell	powershell
Python	python
Ruby	ruby
SQL / T-SQL	sql
Swift	swift
VB	vb
XAML	xaml
XML	xml

For a full list of languages that are supported, see Language names and aliases...

Example: C#

Markdown

```csharp
// Hello1.cs
public class Hello1
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
    }
}
```

Render

// Hello1.cs
public class Hello1
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        System.Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
    }
}

Example: SQL

Markdown

```sql
CREATE TABLE T1 (
  c1 int PRIMARY KEY,
  c2 varchar(50) SPARSE NULL
);
```

Render

CREATE TABLE T1 (
  c1 int PRIMARY KEY,
  c2 varchar(50) SPARSE NULL
);