Christian Heilmann

Automatic issue fixing and filtering in Visual Studio Code

Friday, September 9th, 2022 at 8:32 am

options how to interact with a reported issue with code in the VS Code editor

Using the Microsoft Edge DevTools for VS Code extension you get live analysis of your code and information about problems with accessibility, compatibiliity, security and performance. One highly requested feature was to automatically fix issues or allow users to never report a certain issue again. This is now part of the extension since version 2.1.1.

Recording showing how to fix an issue in your code automatically

Here’s a 25 second intro to the feature:

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