Visual Studio Code Settings Sync Configurations

Update: These settings are outdated. I’m keeping my dev.to post updated with the latest configurations for each versions. You can find my series of posts regarding Settings Sync over there that will increase your productivity.

There are two type of configurations for Settings Sync in terms of their scope.

• Gist Setting
• Global Settings

Setting Sync Global Settings are the setting which apply on all the Visual Studio Code environment while scope of Gist Settings are only limited to Visual Studio current environment.

For Example : GitHub Token is a part of Global Settings of two reasons, first its sensitive information for the user that we cannot allow to upload the github token along-with code settings in Gist. Second its applicable with all Gist, its required to download any Gist.

For details, read here.

Update: These settings are outdated. I’m keeping my dev.to post updated with the latest configurations for each versions. You can find my series of posts regarding Settings Sync over there that will increase your productivity.

Originally published at shanalikhan.github.io on July 31, 2016.