Additional Extensions
The page lists additional extensions, for static analysis, code formating and documentation generation.
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C/C++ Advanced Lint for Visual Studio Code
This extension consolidates the outputs of different lint utilities into the Visual Studio Code interface.
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Lint utilities
The extension requires the prior installation of the lint utilities.
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Multilingual, Offline and Lightweight Spellchecker for Visual Studio Code
This extension checks the spelling in the code. This is especially useful when using Visual Studio Code as a markdown editor.
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Code Editor
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Doxygen Documentation Generator
Doxygen allows to generate a structured documentation, website or PDF, from comments placed on the header files with keywords.
This extension detects a keystroke (customisable, for example ///) and generates the comments of the class, function or variable below. References
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Doxygen utilities
Visual Studio Code Artistic Style Format
Although the C/C++ extension brings a formatter, Artistic Style remains a standard used across many different IDEs and offers more options.
The extension requires the prior installation of Artistic Style. The configuration file .astylerc should be placed on the home directory. References
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Shortcut Menu Bar
One of the missing features of Visual Studio Code is a customisable toolbar. The Shortcut Menu Bar brings a solution.
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Icons
On a more mundane aspect, the default icons for folders, header and code files, binaries can be replaced by brighter and more colourful ones.
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Posted: 25 Apr 2022
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