Visual Studio Code Devs Can Now Sponsor Favorite Extensions -- Visual Studio Magazine

2022-06-15 11:59:58 By : Mr. Jacky Lai

Microsoft now lets Visual Studio Code users financially sponsor authors of their favorite extensions.

"VS Code now allow users to sponsor their favorite extensions," the dev team said in announcing the regular monthly update (May 2022) to VS Code -- bringing it to v1.68 -- while pointing to this illustrative graphic:

Pressing on the Sponsor button for participating extensions brings the user to the URL of a sponsorship page where contributions can be made and sponsors can be listed along with other information.

Extension authors can opt in to the sponsorship program via a new sponsor field in an extension's package.json settings file where the URL can be provided, after which the Sponsor button will appear in the extension's Details page as shown above.

The sponsorship functionality is similar to that which GitHub uses, as explained in the documentation " A new way to contribute to open source ."

Other highlights of the May 2022 update as presented by Microsoft, with links for more information, include:

All of the above and many more new features, functionality, tweaks and fixes are explained in much greater detail in the announcement post.

David Ramel is an editor and writer for Converge360.

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