Handle links in the terminal from your Visual Studio Code extension

June 16, 2022

For a while now, I have been thinking about a way to handle links shown in the Visual Studio Code terminal. By default, when you control/command + click on a link, you navigate to them, but in my case, I wanted to be able to handle the link in the extension.

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Opening folders in Visual Studio Code from an extension

June 2, 2022

I used the vscode.openFolder command in one of my extensions, one of the built-in commands that is available. The command can be combined with a URI argument to open the folder or workspace. While testing it out, the command worked fine on macOS and Linux but gave issues on Windows paths.

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