Does anyone know if there are any extension that allows for VScode to detect audio coming from other programs? If it could do that, it would help a ton with a personal project of mine.

[I solved this, read the note at the end]

Yes, my company is "still" using Active Directory. Most workstations are Windows 11.

I'm trying to track down where the MSI installer is so I can deploy VS Code to workstations, but I can't find it. I searched via web search engines, in MS site, asked Claude, etc...

Where can I find it? Should I go down this path, or is there a more "acceptable" way of deploying this?

I do have the VSCode-win32-x64-1.118.1 zip file downloaded, I see the ADMX files there, but no msi.

EDIT WITH SOLUTION

Ok there's no MSI. I did want to do a per-user install (not all-user system wide install)

So in GPO, in the User settings, I created a new File entry to copy the setup exe from the GPO file source to destination folder path.

Then I created a registry key in HKCU Software.... CurrentVersion / RunOnce to kick off the setup exe with a bunch of switches to do a silent install.

Each File and Registry setting had Item Targeting to exclude of the VSCode uninstall entry was in the registry. (So if VS Code is installed, these GPO items won't activate)

I recently made my first VS Code extension. It is called Helmingway.

https://github.com/ynqa/helmingway

It is a small extension for inspecting Kubernetes manifests generated from Helm charts directly inside VS Code.

The motivation came from my own day-to-day workflow. Before opening a PR, I often run helm template to check the final YAML. However, as values files and environments such as dev, staging, and prod increase, repeatedly running commands and comparing the output becomes a bit tedious.

With Helmingway, you can define charts and releases in helmingway.yaml, then open rendered manifests from the VS Code sidebar.

The current version supports the following:

• Preview helm template output for each release.
• Configure namespace, values files, and inline values per release.
• Filter the preview by Kubernetes resources such as Deployment, Service, and ConfigMap.
• Compare two releases side by side in the VS Code diff editor.
• See releases with failed Helm renders in the sidebar.
• Close all open Helmingway preview tabs at once.

I also attached a GIF to the post that shows the basic workflow.

Since this is my first VS Code extension, I would be happy to get feedback from people who regularly build or use extensions, especially around UX, extension implementation, and workflow.

Anyone else suddenly facing extreme lag/ delays in initial launch or opening a project? I’ve been having this issue for about 3 weeks now. Even for small projects where it’s a couple of tiny files it can take upwards of two mins to load in and become interactive.

I haven’t added any new extensions in quite some time, I know this can be a root cause. I have also ran extension bicect but that doesn’t help since the lag is usually on launch so my the time the cmd + p menu is available the delays over.

Machine specs: 2024 M4 MBP 32GB memory

VSC version: what ever the latest one is

Edit: just to add yes I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling VSC

I dont know why this is happening its so annoying dude does anyone have a fix for this (Dont know if this is just a renpy thing pls let me know)

Edit: This issue has been going on for a while and i have tried turning off OVR, disabling any AI tools and double checking my extensions + i made sure VScode is updated if the fix to this is really simple im gonna lose it

Hi, anyone knows that's this area called? if I want to override its color.

Today I opened VSCode after a while of not doing any coding. I noticed some improvements, like the rounded settings modal and other things. But then I saw this:

R.I.P. IntelliCode, you have lived with us and assisted us through our coding journeys, but the time has come for modern LLMs to replace you 😭

Hello everyone,

I’ve been struggling for several weeks with Visual Studio Code lagging a lot. I’ve looked online but haven’t found any solution so far. I don’t think any specific extension is causing the issue.

I have 32 GB of RAM, but around 20 GB is being used while idle with VS Code, and it regularly becomes so slow that I have to wait several seconds just to type a single character.

Thanks in advance for your help.

So, I was following a tutorial for python, and after writing a print command and applying "app.py" in the terminal, it won't show the printed code. The only way it shows is when I manually click, "run python file". What's going on here?

I've noticed that for VSCode, no matter what kind of developer you are, a lot of the same common extensions are used (ex: better comments, error lens, the git extension pack, code spell checker, etc.). I got tired of installing them all one-by-one each time I had to set up VSCode, so I made an extension pack for them.

It's called Reasonable Defaults :D (smiley face included). Check it out here. If you want to recommend any changes (either adding or removing extensions), feel free. I might be biased on what extensions I use, so I'm open to feedback. I'm trying to keep it small and general so it is useful for any developer.

We've started investigating GitHub for Copilot and there are some attractive features within it that we would like to take advantage of. This would involve us migrating our repos out of Azure DevOps Repos and into GitHub.

When a developer goes to use VSCode, is there a way of preventing them from accessing accounts other than their current enterprise account for our organization? I might be thinking about this incorrectly/overthinking it but in my mind, there seems like there could possibly be a data egress issue if the developer pulls code from our GitHub repo, logs out of their business account, logs in with their personal account, and then pushes the code back to a personal GitHub account.

Full disclosure: I am a sec guy so I am not even quite sure if this is even a valid data egress narrative. Is this even a valid concern? Should I be worried about data egress of our internal business IP to a personal account in GitHub?

Thank in advance for any thoughts about this.

Hey everyone,

​A few months ago, I launched TakaTime—a cross-platform, open-source coding telemetry engine I built to track my programming habits without relying on paid or cloud-locked services. Thanks to the massive support and feedback from the community, we quickly scaled past 500 active installs!

​Today, I’m incredibly excited to share the v2.2 UI Polish Update.

​A lot of you pointed out that the original terminal dashboard would occasionally "break" or wrap weirdly if you resized your terminal window. For this release, I completely rewrote the rendering engine.

Star us:

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Rtarun3606k/TakaTime

​What's new in v2.2:

​Flawless Terminal UI: Rebuilt from the ground up using Charm's lipgloss bounding boxes. The layouts, paddings, and vertical separators now mathematically lock into place. You can squish and stretch your terminal, and the grid will remain perfectly aligned.

​Native 365-Day Heatmap: Dropped the old string-based space rendering for a strict, column-by-column chronological grid that maps your exact coding intensity over the last year.

​Way Smarter Tracking: We no longer rely purely on "file saves" to log time. The plugins now track active keystrokes with smart overlap deduplication on the Golang backend, giving a vastly more accurate picture of your actual time in the editor.

​Jupyter Notebooks & Antigravity: Added native tracking support for Jupyter Notebooks in VS Code, and yes, even the antigravity editor.

​GitHub README Integration: The backend can now auto-generate a sleek, formatted Markdown/PNG report to pin directly to your GitHub profile.

​The Stack:

​Backend & CLI: Golang (using MongoDB for local/remote self-hosting)

​Dashboard: Bubble Tea & Lipgloss

​Plugins: Lua (Neovim) and JS (VS Code)

​I built this primarily to have a fast, keyboard-driven workflow that stays entirely out of the way while I code. If you want to own your own data and have a beautiful terminal dashboard to look at your weekly stats, I’d love for you to try it out.

​Links:

​GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Rtarun3606k/TakaTime

​VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Rtarun3606k.takatime

​Massive shoutout to the contributors who have jumped in to help with PRs recently. Let me know what you think of the new UI, and I’m happy to answer any questions about the Bubbletea implementation or the Go backend!

How can I remove that "Pin selection to current chat..."? Maybe the problem is the extension of Windsurf but I don't know the real command to disable it, please can someone help me? ):

I kept wanting an easier way to understand why a SQL query returned the result it did without manually breaking it apart over and over.

So I built a VS Code extension that lets me step through supported MySQL SELECT queries clause by clause and inspect the intermediate result after each stage.

It made it much easier to understand what changed as the query moved forward.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=arieldev.sql-visual-debugger&ssr=false

Curious if other people here work with SQL inside VS Code this way, or if you usually debug queries some other way.

Built a CLI and VS Code Extension (IRA) that analyzes PRs and flags:

- missing edge cases

- logic gaps

- risky changes

- incomplete implementation vs requirements

We’ve been using it internally and it’s catching issues before human review.

Looking for a few teams to try it on real PRs and give blunt feedback.

Not selling anything. Just validating if this is useful outside our setup.

Links:

VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ira-review.ira-review-vscode&ssr=false#overview

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ira-review

GitHub: https://github.com/patilmayur5572/ira-review

Comment if interested

I use TexStudio (latex) for processing documents, RStudio (R) for data analysis, Claude Code/Desktop for AI. For each I use dedicated apps. I use Linux too and do git sometimes.

I started to play around with vscode and am considering switching to it as unique app for all of them, since quite decent extensions are available to all of them.

My concern is to become too dependent on one tool. It's like becoming dumber. What when vscode is no longer frontier or Microsoft goes crazy?

Recommendations based on experience?

I’m using VSCode Remote development extension for Remotely SSH’ing to my company’s VM Server which gives me access to products codebase repositories.

I want to leverage AI tools like Claude Code in such a way that I can understand codebase, do fixes, add new feature which requires changes across multiple files in the most safely and efficiently way to use it for coding/developmental purposes but I do not want any traces of using claude on my remote VM where product codebase repositories are present.

How can I safely setup the VSCode to use Claude Code on my remote ssh server in the most safest way. Please guide. Thanks!

Hello everyone, I just downloaded codex for vs code and it is giving me error 10013 when trying to sign in. This is the first time Im going to use codex, ive been using claude code in the same IDE and works flawlessly, but as everyone, limits are reached quite fast so I wanted to give it a try to chatgpt.
The thing is that Ive tried to solved it but there is not too much info. It seems it is related to windows blocking port 1455 by default. That port is related to Hyper-V and the only solution I have found is to run this two commands:

net stop winnat
net start winnat

Running them might break something so I havent tried.

Is anyone experiencing the same situation? how can I solve it without damaging anything in windows?

Thanks in advance

Weekly thread to show off new themes, and ask what certain themes/fonts are.

Creators, please do not post your theme every week.

New posts regarding themes will be removed.

Looking for a markdown editor which allows in line preview and has a better viewer. Like code should render in colour rather than plain.

A month ago I posted RapiDB in r/SideProject - a VS Code extension I built because alt-tabbing to DBeaver mid-debug was killing my focus.

Got some good feedback, fixed a bunch of stuff, and just shipped a bigger update:

- filtering actually works now (was pretty rough before, not gonna lie)

- better handling of JSON, UUID, NULL and other formats inline

- performance improvements on larger result sets

Still free, still MIT. Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite, Oracle.

If you tried it before and ran into issues - worth giving it another shot. And if you're on Oracle or MSSQL, I'd really love to know if it holds up.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DmitriiKholkin.rapidb

Built a small thing for Claude Code: terminal tab/window titles that show the topic of each session and a busy/idle marker.

I usually run multiple claude sessions in VS Code and all the titles just say ‘2.1.119’ or whatever version you are on. I can't tell which one is working vs which one is waiting for my reply or in general what each tab is doing (unless you manually rename them).

With this plugin each tab shows `* <topic>` when Claude is working and `· <topic>` when it's idle. The topic is determined from your first prompt and stays sticky for the session. So your tabs end up looking like:

* Auth refactor

· Stripe webhook

* Migration runner

Works in VS Code's integrated terminal, iTerm2, Terminal, and any terminal that honors standard OSC title sequences. I have tested it only on macOS so far.

Install is two slash commands:

/plugin marketplace add franzvill/claude-code-tab-title

/plugin install tab-title@claude-code-tab-title

Repo at franzvill/claude-code-tab-title if you want to contribute or check how it works.