vscode-extensions

Today I found a VSCode extension that I would very much love to use in Visual Studio 2017 (Pro or Enterprise). I'm not at all familiar with VSCode. Are the platforms entirely different, or is there some hope that I could somehow modify the extension and "port it over"? Are the platforms entirely different [...] Yes, they are - VSCode extensions run in a JavaScript engine (and are usually written with TypeScript), while Visual Studio extensions seem to run on .NET (usually C#). They also have different extension APIs: Visual Studio 2017 SDK Visual Studio Code Extension API That doesn't mean

I'm trying to create a simple extension for toggling the visibility of test files in VS Code. Here's my current approach: const testGlobs = [ '**/__tests__', '**/__mocks__', '**/*.spec.js', ] function hideTests() { const exclude = workspace.getConfiguration('files.exclude', vscode.ConfigurationTarget.Global) testGlobs.forEach(glob => exclude.update(glob, true, vscode.ConfigurationTarget.Global)); console.log(exclude) // does not reflect the updated values } This appears to have no impact. The settings for the file patterns remain false in my user settings file, as they do when logging out the

I have a VS Code extension for ST language support. Right now it provides only syntax highlights and some snippets. I wanted to create a tree structure of the document showing programs, functions and their parameters in the Outline panel. But I cannot find an example of how to do that. Can you refer me to the right direction but not to LSP as it is too complicated for now I want to make it programmatically. The outline view is populated by a DocumentSymbolProvider (see also: registerDocumentSymbolProvider() ). In the language server protocol, this corresponds to the textDocument/documentSymbol

According to the API docs, a Message box can take a second argument: an array of strings which act as actions on the message box (which normally just has a single close button/action): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/vscode-api#_window showInformationMessage(message: string, ...items: string[]): Thenable<string> So I tried this: vscode.window.showInformationMessage('hello world', ['test','taco','cheeseburger'], function(value){ console.log(value + " was clicked"); }); But this doesn't seem to work. I get the message box along with a Close button like normal. But then to the

I know that I can use Ruby's regular expressions in a tmLanguage file, however that seems not to be the case in other configuration files, e.g. for extensions. Take for example the firstLine value in the language contribution . I get errors when I use character classes (e.g. \s or \p{L} ). Hence I wonder what is actually allowed there. How would you match whitespaces there? Update : After the comments I tried this: "firstLine": "^(lexer|parser)?\\s*grammar\\w+;" which is supposed to match a first line like lexer grammar G1; or just grammar G1; . Is there a way to test if that RE works, because