February 23, 2023
If you work with webviews, you may want to open a link to a website or file within the same instance of Visual Studio Code. There are a couple of ways to achieve this, such as posting a message to the extension host or using the command URI option of your webview.
Read moreJanuary 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 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 moreJuly 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.
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