I primarily work in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code, using VS2017 for SSDT work, and VS Code for pretty much everything else. VS code is highly configurable, and as it’s a rainy Sunday, I thought I’d share my settings with you in case you are interested. A few colleagues at work have asked me what extensions and settings I have so, here they are as of Feb 2018.

Extensions

In a console session within vs code, you can do this to list them:

PS C:\> code --list-extensions
codezombiech.gitignore
DotJoshJohnson.xml
eamodio.gitlens
gerane.Theme-Blackboard
mohsen1.prettify-json
ms-mssql.mssql
ms-vscode.PowerShell
ms-vsts.team
PeterJausovec.vscode-docker
secanis.jenkinsfile-support
yzhang.markdown-all-in-one

These are:

  • Blackboard Theme
  • Docker
  • Git Lens
  • gitignore
  • Jenkinsfile Support
  • Markdown All In One
  • mssql
  • PowerShell
  • Prettify JSON
  • Visual Studio Team Services
  • XML Tools

Settings

Settings I like are:

{
    "gitlens.advanced.messages": {
        "suppressCommitHasNoPreviousCommitWarning": false,
        "suppressCommitNotFoundWarning": false,
        "suppressFileNotUnderSourceControlWarning": false,
        "suppressGitVersionWarning": false,
        "suppressLineUncommittedWarning": false,
        "suppressNoRepositoryWarning": false,
        "suppressResultsExplorerNotice": false,
        "suppressUpdateNotice": false,
        "suppressWelcomeNotice": true
    },
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Blackboard",
    "mssql.connections": [
        {
            "server": "CROCUS",
            "database": "master",
            "authenticationType": "Integrated",
            "profileName": "CROCUS-master",
            "password": ""
        }
    ],
    "editor.fontFamily": "'Fira Code'",
    "editor.fontLigatures": true,
    "editor.fontSize": 16,
    "editor.minimap.renderCharacters": false,
    "editor.mouseWheelZoom": true,
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "boundary",
    "editor.showFoldingControls": "always",
    "window.zoomLevel": 0,
    "files.autoSave": "onWindowChange",
    "powershell.startAutomatically": false
}

Here’s a quick video on how to set it all up: