Snippets can now insert block comments with proper syntax ... Normally, manually changing settings in Visual Studio Code involves editing JSON files that describe the settings—a tedious and ...

you can use it both in Visual Studio -- to provide guidance when creating JSON documents -- and in your code to validate the messages you're receiving. In an earlier column, I showed how to create a ...

I don't use Visual Studio's Edit menu enough ... Paste XML as Classes and Paste JSON as Classes. Using the Paste JSON as Classes option, I can copy some JSON in my JavaScript code and create a ...