Visual Studio Code tips and tricks

The Discussion

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  Is there a text version of this? Do you really expect people to spend an hour watching this video?

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  Boris, this is a conference talk. Yes, we will spend an hour to watch this. Take your entitled self and gtfo.

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  @Boris:
  
  You don't need to watch the entire video in one sitting and you can skip tips you already know or that don't apply to you
  
  The VS Code website has plenty of text documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/
  
  Also, as mentioned in the video, I've been posting daily VS Code tips on twitter (@mattbierner) that feature up to 280 characters of the most scrumptious unicode

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  Also would like a transcript or itemized blog post...not gonna watch an hour long video...

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  Guys, it’s hard to watch such a long video. Make a text version as a blog post. Or as a Wiki page. Btw, I don’t like Electron..

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  Table of Contents
  1. The Timeline View (1:26)
  2. Multicursor (3:04)
  3. Go to Symbol (6:48)
  4. No Config JavaScript and TypeScript Debugging (9:34)
  5. The GitHub PR Extension (15:13)
  6. Go to Type Definition (18:45)
  7. Rearranging Views (20:40)
  8. Launching VS Code from the Command Line (23:38)
  9. Search Editors (25:50)
  10. Hover Peek (30:41)
  11. Markdown Preview (32:37)
  12. Call Hierarchy (35:10)
  13. Explorer Filtering (38:23)
  14. Check JS (40:23)
  15. Creating New Files in a Folder (44:56)
  16. Stage and Revert Selected Lines (46:34)
  17. Smart Selection (49:24)
  18. Split Editor (51:49)
  19. Refactorings for JavaScript and TypeScript (53:04)
  20. Settings Sync (57:36)
  Outro (1:00:10)
  

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  Always fun to look how awesome vscode is... not sure why people always have to complain about anything. They are sharing some knowledge for free, and then you still complain, why not do something more productive instead, is not like you're being forced to watch anything. And you always have the option to watch it on 2x speed.
  
  Awesome video, thanks a lot of sharing! vscode for the win!

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  Thank you for the compiling so many tricks in one video.

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  Is there a way to skip a multi-cursor match?
  Imagine I want to change const 1 and 3, how can I skip const 2?

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  @KamasamaK: THANK YOU!

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  I use VScode for some time, and with this video I learned some new tricks. Thank you :)

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  I don't want to have to watch a video or read an article. Is there any way you can send someone to my office and just have them write my code for me? Thanks. All kidding aside, thanks for the tips. Love VS Code.

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  @KamasamaK
  
  thanks .. it helped a lot.

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  Really useful stuff - an hour well spent. Thanks very much.

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  Ctrl-hover doesn't do anything when I try it.

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  The best hour of my vscode life :)
  

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  Erik's tongue-in-cheek remark reminds me of what I told my assembly language students. The good news: you can do anything the machine is capable of doing in assembly language. The bad news: you gotta do it.
  
  Really happy that I found vscode. It makes my life much nicer with my WSL Ubuntu installation and working remotely. The only thing I miss is changing tabs to spaces in an existing assembly language source file. Still need to use Notepad++ for that.
  
  Thanks for the video.

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  KamasamaK you are the man, thank you, and of course the author of the video :clap:clap: clap

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  Thank you @KamasamaK and of course the author of the video Matt Bierner, clap:clap:clap

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  If there was an extension and the WebView could make it so that you can have an external website in a VSCode panel I would live in VS Code.

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  Great video by the way. Worth every minute.