Along with acting as VP of BIWUG (Belgian Information Worker User Group), Elio is an independent contractor for his own consulting company, Struyf Consulting.
Let us go back to the end of 2020. My wife and I were chatting in the kitchen about buying a new car. One of the criteria of my wife the vehicle should have was to have seven seats as it would be easier to bring kids to tennis. I wanted to go for a fully electric car.
Read moreIn Visual Studio Code extension webviews you probably need to get familiar with post-messaging communication. This post-messaging communication is used when you want to start a process, request information, etc. For this communication flow to work, the extension and webview can send and listen to incoming messages. Although this is not a complicated flow to understand, it quickly feels like a disconnected communication flow, as you cannot simply wait for a response.
Read moreA couple of months ago, I wrote about how you could create an authentication provider for Visual Studio Code. In this article, we will take it further and make it reusable by other extensions. The reason for creating a reusable authentication provider could differ per solution. Maybe you want to make one for other extensions to leverage, or your company wants to release multiple extensions that can all use the same type of authentication.
Read moreIn Visual Studio Code extension development, you may need a webview to give the developer/user the best experience for using your extension/functionalities. Webviews come in different flavors. You can open them in a panel or an editor view, but there is a difference between both when it comes to showing actions or enabling/disabling commands.
Read moreA great feature that allows your users to get familiar with your extension is the ability for you to create walkthroughs. Show image Walkthrough experience The welcome experience can be seen or opened from the start experience in VS Code. Show image VS Code - Get started But how do you get to the welcome experience when you close the start page?
Read moreFor 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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