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Extensions, workflows, remote development, and the editor tricks that turn a fresh install into a place worth spending the day.

Videos filed under vscode

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Build Unity games in VS Code!

Microsoft's Unity extension brings C# tooling, IntelliCode support, and debugging to Visual Studio Code, with Unity package version 2.0.20 required for some setups.

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Take Me Home VS Code

A Friday-evening developer lament captures a broken build, failing tests, and Visual Studio Code.

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Edit GitHub Gists in VS Code!

The Gist extension creates public or private GitHub Gists from Visual Studio Code through the command palette.

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I Don't Hate YAML Anymore!

Red Hat's YAML extension helps Visual Studio Code detect structural, indentation, and type problems, with stronger validation when a schema is available.

1:008,024 views145 likes
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Screenshot VS Code like a pro 📸

CodeSnap creates themed code screenshots directly inside Visual Studio Code with a live preview and selectable lines.

1:004,138 views41 likes
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HTML in VS Code = Easy Mode

HTML Biscuits adds customizable annotations beside closing tags so deeply nested HTML is easier to navigate.

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Stop misspelling code in VS Code!

C# 12 adds default parameter values and `params` support to anonymous functions and lambda expressions.

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Mastering CSV with VS Code

Rainbow CSV makes delimited files easier to inspect in VS Code through color-coded columns, validation, alignment, headers, and SQL-like RBQL queries.

6:4120,204 views268 likes
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VSCode's New YAML Support is AWESOME

Red Hat's YAML extension improves Visual Studio Code with validation, automatic indentation, schemas, autocomplete, and contextual hover information.

8:2237,007 views314 likes
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Spell Check in VS Code with Code Spell Checker

Code Spell Checker finds mistakes in documentation, comments, variables, and function names while supporting quick fixes, custom dictionaries, additional languages, and targeted exclusions.

5:3813,000 views179 likes
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Write Better TailwindCSS in VS Code

Using `StringComparison` avoids the allocations, cultural errors, and slower performance caused by converting strings with `ToUpper` or `ToLower` before comparison.

6:1712,493 views150 likes
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Navigate faster in VS Code with Footsteps

Footsteps highlights recently edited lines in Visual Studio Code and gradually fades older changes, making it easier to retrace work across files.

5:002,044 views48 likes
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Lint Markdown in VS Code

MarkdownLint provides immediate formatting diagnostics, repository-level rules, IntelliSense-backed configuration, and automatic fixes in Visual Studio Code.

4:549,156 views122 likes
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Screenshot your Code in VS Code

Value types and reference types differ in how they use the stack and heap in .NET.

3:5723,796 views462 likes
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Manage GitHub Pull Requests & Issues with VS Code

GitHub Pull Requests and Issues brings reviews, queries, local PR checkout, issue management, and TODO-to-issue workflows into Visual Studio Code.

7:286,328 views81 likes
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Keep Track of VS Code Windows with Peacock

Entity Framework Core's `AsNoTracking` can accelerate read-only queries by avoiding the overhead of change tracking.

7:571,979 views43 likes
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Write Code in Containers with VS Code and Remote Containers

Visual Studio Code's Remote Containers extension creates consistent, disposable development environments that can package SDKs, CLIs, extensions, ports, and setup commands with a project.

6:001,984 views59 likes
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Work with Others Using Live Share in VS Code

Visual Studio Live Share supports remote pair programming, reviews, shared debugging, chat, and terminals without requiring collaborators to clone or configure the project.

6:4027,883 views198 likes
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Format Your Code in VS Code with Prettier

The Prettier extension integrates opinionated formatting into Visual Studio Code while respecting project configuration, local versions, and plugins.

8:091,170 views28 likes
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Manage GitHub Gists in VS Code

The Gist extension manages GitHub Gists inside Visual Studio Code, supporting authentication, creation, insertion into documents, and default privacy settings.

5:455,011 views165 likes
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Testing APIs with REST Client in VS Code

The OpenAI .NET SDK 2.0 provides specialized clients for streaming chat, DALL-E image generation, and Whisper audio transcription.

6:295,887 views83 likes
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Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 - VS Code Extension Highlight

Bracket Pair Colorizer 2 distinguishes nested brackets and parentheses with colors, highlights, and scope lines that can be extensively customized.

5:3711,143 views120 likes