My Top 8 VS Code Extensions

Extensions used in my Microsoft Ignite Session

3 min readOct 28, 2022

I recently gave a talk at Microsoft Ignite where I used Visual Studio Code. The most frequently asked question was what extensions are you using? So, in this post I will share my top 8 Visual Studio Code extensions.

Utilities

REST Client — Visual Studio Marketplace

This is the extensions I am asked about the most often. This extension allows you to send HTTP request directly from VS Code.

Essential ASP.NET Core 3 Snippets — Visual Studio Marketplace

I can never remember the signature of functions in ASP.NET Core. Using this extension adds snippets to VS Code to create them for you.

Redis — Visual Studio Marketplace

When I demo Dapr I often use Redis as my state store and Pub/Sub broker. This extension allows me to review the data in my Redis container.

Dapr — Visual Studio Marketplace

This extension scaffolds the required tasks to enable debugging of your Dapr applications.

Code Spell Checker — Visual Studio Marketplace

I can’t spell. Enough said.

Languages

To set breakpoints and configure debugging you need to install an extension of the target language. In my final demo I demoed a system that had three microservices written in three different languages and I hit breakpoints across all of them.