Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreTo 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.
Read moreFor Front Matter and another VS Code extension which is currently in development, I wanted to understand which options there are for storing data. Data can be anything, for some extensions, it will be settings, for others, it is more complicated sets of data. In this article, I will give you an overview of all the available storage options and when to use them.
Read moreWhen it comes to theming the webview’s content of your Visual Studio Code extensions, the proposed way by the Visual Studio Code team is to use the provided CSS variables from the current theme. Although, in some cases, you want a bit more control, or make sure it matches what you want to achieve.
Read moreWhat!? It is already the end of 2021! All I can say about 2021 is that life takes you to unexpected places. Even in the last two weeks of 2021, things happened for which I far from prepared. In some circumstances of the events that occurred this year, I wish I could give myself the potential of just taking a break.
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