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.
January 24, 2023
While creating a session about Visual Studio Code extension development, I discovered that creating a submenu in the context menus is possible. These submenus are a great way to make the context menus less cluttered and easier to use. Submenu in a context menu When trying it out, I could not make it work easily as the docs were unclear.
Read moreDecember 21, 2022
Notifications in Visual Studio Code are trivial for your extensions to notify the user when something happens or a process completes. A downside of these notifications is that they cannot be dismissed programmatically; they require manual user interaction. As in my current extension, I wanted to be able to have a notification that can do the following:
Read moreDecember 21, 2022
Less than two weeks, and we are ending the year 2022. It was an intense year personally, but there was also a lot of progress and a couple of achievements, of which I am happy and proud. In life, you make choices that you believe are the right ones, but they strike you in the end.
Read moreDecember 20, 2022
With the Visual Studio Code progress notification (vscode.window.withProgress), you can make it cancellable. This cancellable option allows the user to cancel it by clicking on a cancel button. Progress notification in Visual Studio Code What if you want to cancel it programmatically? That was the case for one of my extensions.
Read moreDecember 8, 2022
In the previous article, I explained how you could ensure your URI handler works in GitHub codespaces and Gitpod. Now it is time to explain more about making an authentication provider that works on GitHub codespaces and Gitpod. The authentication flow In the extension I am working on, we use the OAuth 2.
Read moreDecember 7, 2022
If you are reading this article, you know what a URI handler in Visual Studio Code is, but in case you do not. A URI Handler allows you to create a callback into your extension. Typically this is used in authentication flows to open your browser, fill in your credentials, and get redirected back into Visual Studio Code.
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