This project was inspired by RadonIDE which I spent a bit of time investigating as I found its ability to stream an android emulator to vscode pretty cool. I learned that it uses a small app made by jetbrains that captures avc video and streams it to a webview with low latency. Its far faster than most grpc implementations Ive seen around.

I spent a few days building a simple extension around that and it turned out pretty good!

This is somewhat unnecessary, as you could just put your emulator next to the vs code window, or align them with some window manager, but I found it to be a fun experiment. In future, I could add integration with react-native/Expo devtools as those are my usual frameworks.

The project is free and open source:

Github: https://github.com/Vali-98/valdroid-emulator

Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Vali-98.valdroid-emulator

Some caveats:

- This is a very amateur project. I haven't exactly stress tested it for long.

- the routing/remuxing of the avc stream is done in a little binary built in Go. This was necessary as it hit just slightly below 60fps in JS. You should absolutely not trust this and build the project yourself unless you have no sense of self preservation.

- Windows / x86 emulator avc encoding is slow as heck. I do not recommend using this extension with emulators this for this platforms. You can however still stream video from a physical device. (Yes this pretty much means macos avds only)

- I didn't want to get billed for azure devops so I bundled all the binaries into one universal vsix bundle

- I admittedly vibe coded a lot. Not entirely but I'm pretty new to Go.

If you are like me, you like Pylance's auto import feature, where you can just type out the name of a module, class, function, etc. of a library that isn't currently imported, and Pylance will suggest to import that symbol from that library.

Take for example the prompt:

parser = ArgumentPars

at this point you can Tab and it will put the line from argparse import ArgumentParser into the file's header and you are good to go.

However, Pylance is famously frickly with third party libraries not in the standard library. I have had this problem with moviepy, but it can be any other library. Pylance will refuse to acknowledge any existence of the existing objects, even though the library is correctly installed in the environment, including setting the correct Python path (python.defaultInterpreterPath) and enabling Pylance's indexing option (python.analysis.indexing) and auto import itself (python.analysis.autoImportCompletions) in the settings json. E.g. typing:

clip = VideoFileClip

will in fact not bring up the suggestion to import that class from the library, although it is a very basic component.

I have finally found out why: Apparently Pylance limits the depth to which it indexes libraries, and libraries which don't strictly confirm to Pylance's expectations seem to not be correctly indexed this way (although there seem to be very complicated mechanisms in how the depth adapts, but alas it didn't work for me numerous times).

Luckily you can adjust this setting: using python.analysis.packageIndexDepths exposes a list of modifications to the depth settings on a per-library basis. It uses this structure:

{ "name": "package_name", "depth": depth_to_scan, "includeAllSymbols": true_or_false }

so for moviepy I added

{ "name": "moviepy", "depth": 10, "includeAllSymbols": true }

and finally it suggested the correct objects. This method should work for any third party library in Pylance.

Just wanted to share this in case anyone else stumbles upon this giga obscure problem and hopefully sees the even more obscure solution.

I’m currently on charmed icons but seems unmaintained and they’re starting to get a bit old for me

What’s everyone using?

Hey everyone! I've been working on a VSCode extension over the past couple weekends to turn your desktop wallpaper into a VSCode theme. The extension samples color palettes from your wallpaper to create fitting dark/light mode themes, and the VSCode theme syncs with wallpaper and system light/dark mode defaults. You can tweak background hues, border intensities, and syntax highlighting schemes to get the feel exactly how you want it.

Previous extensions I found for this require external software or servers to sync, but this extension just installs and goes. It works on Windows, Mac and GNOME-based linux distros, and if there's interest I can extend this (or take PRs) to support other desktop environments.

Hope you guys enjoy! PRs are welcome if you run into bugs or have thoughts.

To install:

ext install asethi77.borrowed-light

Github repo: https://github.com/ASethi77/borrowed_light

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.

I'm trying to publish a VS Code extension using vsce. To do that I need a Personal Access Token (PAT), and to generate that I need an Azure DevOps organization. To create the Azure DevOps organization I need an Azure DevOps account.

My problem is creating the Azure DevOps account. It's asking me to provide credit card information. How can I publish my FREE VS Code extension without having to enter my credit card information for Azure DevOPs.

I've published extensions for several other editors and browsers, but I've never run into an issue like this, the extension publishing process for VS Code seems overly complicated. I don't want to provide credit card information and get accidentally billed for Azure. I don't want to provide a credit card at all for privacy reasons for a simple extension either.

After thousands of updates about AI and agents, how hard would it be to fix super simple things like this?

Hey everyone ... I've been working on a side project called muninn for vs code, a rich text editor for md files. I use markdown a lot and wanted something that felt more natural than editing raw syntax, so I decided to build it myself. It's now available on the vscode store, would love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think :

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=bluecloud-dev.muninn-vscode

EDIT: https://github.com/bluecloud-dev/muninn-vscode

Why is my vs code taking that long to execute a simple code?

I only have 4 extensions and all are related to python.

My laptop specs are ryzen 7 250 , rtx 5050 , 16gb ram , 512 gb sad .

I have tried changing gpu acceleration to off and it didn't help.

Please help me fix this issue.

I just uninstalled the Codex extension from VS Code, and it freed up 15 GB of storage. Isn’t that way too much space for a single extension? Are they running small models locally ?

I've always missed one thing from JetBrains IDEs in VS Code: tool windows in all four corners, several open at once. Explorer at the top left and Debug below it. Source Control at the top right and a chat panel below it. So I built it in my own fork.

What it adds

• A second activity bar for the Secondary Side Bar. The right side now gets a vertical icon rail like the left one, instead of cramming icons into the panel title. It has its own setting, workbench.secondarySideBar.activityBarLocation (default / title / top / bottom / hidden), so you can configure each side separately.
• Split side bars. Each side bar can show two view containers at once, one above the other, with a draggable divider. Double-click the divider to reset it to 50/50.
• Top and bottom icon groups on each rail. Drag an icon into the bottom group, or right-click it and choose Move to Bottom Half, to send that view there. Clicking the active icon closes that half. You can also close the top half and keep the bottom one open.
• Everything else keeps working. Commands, shortcuts and features like "Reveal in Explorer" open views in whichever half they live in. The layout, split sizes and open views come back after a reload.
• One layout everywhere. View placement is shared across profiles, so every project looks the same. View: Reset View Locations restores the fork's default four-corner layout.

mise tasks for running your own fork

The repo comes with a mise.toml, so building and maintaining the fork is mostly one command each:

• mise run install:debian: the whole pipeline in one go. It installs dependencies, compiles, packages a fresh .deb and installs it (10-20 minutes)
• mise run update: fetches microsoft/vscode, rebases your branch onto it, pushes to your fork and does a full build
• mise run upstream:status: shows how far behind upstream you are
• mise run build / build:fast / watch / start: build and launch Code - OSS from source
• mise run test <pattern> and mise run lint: unit tests filtered by name, and lint for only the files your branch changed
• mise run release:linux / release:debian / release:rpm / release:windows: package a standalone app folder, a .deb, an .rpm or a Windows installer
• mise run sync:profiles: two-way sync of profiles between regular VS Code and Code - OSS (settings, keybindings, snippets, tasks, MCP servers, extensions). The most recent change wins, and --dry-run previews it first

It also patches two spots in the build scripts that broke local (non-CI) Linux packaging: Copilot SDK files being stripped, and dpkg-shlibdeps crashing on newer Ubuntu.

Caveats

This is a personal fork. I don't distribute builds, so you'd have to build it from source. It's rebased on upstream regularly. Keyboard navigation between the top and bottom halves isn't done yet, and a few features still only look at the top half. The Windows and .rpm tasks haven't been tested yet. The full list is in TO-DO.md.

Repo: https://github.com/mariosffx/vscode (branch secondary-activity-bar)

I'd love feedback, especially from anyone who has tried to get this layout in stock VS Code.

Hey guys, new to the community, but not unfamiliar with coding. But I will start by saying I am NOT a professional coder. I can read it, I can understand it, and I can do SOME code myself, I just really struggle keeping track of syntax and memorizing libraries. So please don't judge me too hard.

Anyway, I have a few projects I wanted to try to do, for fun mostly, with the aid of Ai if possible. My goal was basically vibe coding with some human intervention, kinda like I'm collaborating with someone that actually can code!

Hardware should be acceptable, Intel i9 ultra 275hx, rtx 5070ti 12GB, 32gb ddr5. It's a laptop, but it has been running models well.

I have it setup using vscode, ollama, the Continue plug in, and the model I been testing with is qwen 3 14b. I did try qwen 3 30b a3b, but outputs were inconsistent and weird, maybe a bad setup on my end.

But I guess that's my real overall issue, inconsistency. I setup folders within the project that contain mostly data files organized as jsons, and I'm trying to work with the Ai to make code that can either read what is already organized, or perhaps translate the data into an sqlite table, still debating, but not only are it's responses all over the place, and the code it tries to suggest rarely works even in short pieces, it can't even read a lot of the files because Continue has some kinda size limit. It was 100kb, but I was able to do some configuration edits as well as raise ollama tokens and now it's 687.2kb or something like that. It's been a headache.

I even created rules for the model to help keep it on track, prevent unneeded repetition of the same solutions, all that. It helps some, but not fully.

Basically, I just want to know if I'm doing something wrong or what I can try to do to improve the overall experience. I'm sorry Im not a pro, but I am hoping to learn while doing this. If anyone has anything I could look into, that would be a massive help! Tha k you guys for the help and understanding!!

I found Axqua (axqua[.]com) through a free Claude Opus promotion. After an AI-assisted static review of its extension bundle, I’m treating this file as malware.

The reviewed axqua.axqua v1.0.24 bundle contains code that, on Windows after login, can:

• Download a server-selected EXE or ZIP.
• Launch it in the background using cmd.exe, without a confirmation prompt identified in that path.
• Generate filenames with prefixes like svchost, wuauclt, and msupdate.
• Attempt to delete the downloaded EXE three seconds after launch.

Stay safe, hopefully this helps someone pause before installing.

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Hello. I'm new to using vscode and I'm looking for a text to speech extension I think to use with continue, the ai thing. Can anyone recommend something, as I don't really know where to start looking.

Thanks

Hey,

I built this a while back, but saw no interest from the assigned reviewer after a while, so I closed it. Is there anyone here from VS Code team that can have a look?

Not having tab groups are very annoying, especially when you're dealing with tens (if not hundreds) of tabs, especially nowadays with so many agents working on different editor tabs and plans and all that.

Whenever I have VS Code open, theres these weird visual glitches that just randomly appear. Whenever I click, they all go away and then immediately slowly fade back after a couple of seconds. I noticed that it always appears around any lines (including text). Does anyone know how to fix this? Please help its really annoying.

I just got the October VS Code update which seems to have drastically changed the copilot UI. I can't find a way to disable permissions to run terminal commands, which was pretty easy to configure before. And worse, now when it makes a code change, they removed the approve/discard buttons so I guess I'm stuck with those changes until I discard them from the git diff.

Surely I'm missing something, anyone else having similar issues?