Office Development MVP / VS Code & Microsoft 365 & Azure Development

Adding or deleting GitHub project labels on issues

May 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.

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How to callback to your extension from outside Visual Studio Code

May 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.

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Create an Authentication Provider for Visual Studio Code

April 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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How to use the Microsoft authentication provider in Visual Studio Code

April 27, 2022

While creating a custom authentication provider, I found out the standard Microsoft authentication provider in Visual Studio Code can be used with your Azure AD Apps and Tenants. By default, VS Code supports the github, github-enterprise, and microsoft authentication providers, but little documentation is available, mostly coming from the issues in the VS Code repo.

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Extension tip to bring Visual Studio Code to the foreground

April 1, 2022

In one of the extensions I am developing with a custom authentication provider, I required to bring the last Visual Studio Code instance to the front once signed in. When you can control the full authentication flow, you typically redirect the user to vscode://..., which triggers your browser from opening Visual Studio Code.

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#DevHack: Fetching sponsors via the GitHub GraphQL API

February 24, 2022

To automate the roll-up of sponsors for Front Matter on the website. I started to look through the GitHub Rest API documentation to check it could receive this kind of information. Unfortunately, the Rest API does not provide you with this information, so I went to where the cool kids go these days, GraphQL.

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