Favourite VSCode Extensions

I’ve been using VSCode for about 3 years now, it’s not the best editor out there, but I like it. I try to keep it minimal with only a few extensions for executing certain things quickly and easily.

Here’s a list of the extensions I use:

• C# - I’ve been writing C# over 5 years now, the first years I used Visual Studio, then vscode came out and I switched. On dotnet core it works quite good until it starts failing.

• .NET Core Test Explorer - I’m not super happy with this tool, but it does the job. It discovers tests, and I can run them. I don’t need anything more.

• Nuget Package Manager - It seems like an integral extension working with C# projects.

• SQL Tools - I started using it quite recently, mainly because I didn’t want to open another program just to see a few data points. I don’t always run complicated queries, so a simple tool like this is enough.

• Go - For golang is one of the best extensions out there. It’s simple and consistent, I haven’t faced any big issues yet.

• Git Lens - Neafty extension to see what’s going on with my repo, when I first installed it the experience was terrible, because everything became slow. Few updates later everything worked smoothly.

• Vim Emulation - Well, one of my favourite editors is Vim because of the key bindings, but sometimes things don’t work very well (like python-mode), so this is my alternative.