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Favorite extensions: XML Tools - Visual Studio Code Tutorial
From the course: Visual Studio Code Productivity Tips
Favorite extensions: XML Tools
- [Instructor] XML doesn't get much love these days. But it's still a staple in many development shops. Out of the box, you get decent color syntax in the visual studio code editor. We can enhance the features with an XML extension. This is what it looks like when you open an XML file with the default settings. I'm in the trucks.xml file. You get color coding of the tags. When you select a tag, it'll show you all the other tags with the same name. There's also a line drawn between the starting tag and the ending tag. Let's change the indenting on a couple of these lines and then if I'd like to clean this up by using format document, typically I would go to right click and choose format document, but you can see that's not available. But I can add that with this extension we're using. Go to the extension section, search in the marketplace for XML, the first item is the one I'm looking for, XML tools. And this has two things that I like, it has a formatting feature, and it enhances the…
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Use Go to and Peek Definition to find code references4m 29s
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Refactor the code4m 12s
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Favorite extensions: Bracket Pair Colorizer2m 53s
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Tidy code layout with Format Document6m 54s
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Favorite extensions: XML Tools2m 36s
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Create custom keybindings for common commands2m 40s
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Favorite extensions: Spell Checker2m 40s
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A simple technique to copy code blocks1m 1s
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Favorite extensions: Sort lines2m 2s
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Use Emmet notation to add boilerplate text6m 14s
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Favorite extensions: GitLens4m 24s
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Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code2m 46s
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