Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is a Lead DevTools Engineer for RapidAPI on an independent contractor basis and has launched his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
July 25, 2022
A great feature that allows your users to get familiar with your extension is the ability for you to create walkthroughs. Walkthrough experience The welcome experience can be seen or opened from the start experience in VS Code. VS Code - Get started But how do you get to the welcome experience when you close the start page?
Read moreJune 16, 2022
For a while now, I have been thinking about a way to handle links shown in the Visual Studio Code terminal. By default, when you control/command + click on a link, you navigate to them, but in my case, I wanted to be able to handle the link in the extension.
Read moreJune 2, 2022
I used the vscode.openFolder command in one of my extensions, one of the built-in commands that is available. The command can be combined with a URI argument to open the folder or workspace. While testing it out, the command worked fine on macOS and Linux but gave issues on Windows paths.
Read moreMay 18, 2022
Since projects got added to GitHub, I started using it more and more. For Front Matter, I am using projects to manage its releases. Before projects, I used milestones, but with projects, it is easier to follow up on what things I still need to do before the release. GitHub Project example from Front Matter One thing I was missing was a sort of label in the issue list to easily spot which issues were already added to a project release.
Read moreMay 5, 2022
While creating the authentication provider, I discovered a helpful handler in the Visual Studio Code API, which allows you to handle system-wide URIs and callback into your extension. In the case of the authentication provider, I use it to retrieve the token that gets passed from the callback, but you can use the registerUriHandler for many more scenarios.
Read moreApril 28, 2022
Previously I wrote how you could use the Microsoft Authentication Provider in your Visual Studio Code extension to custom Azure AD applications. In this article, we go a step further and create our authentication provider from scratch. As By default, VS Code supports the github, github-enterprise, and microsoft authentication providers. If you use another service or have your authentication service, you will likely want to create your Authentication Provider.
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