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Helps manage working with vscode-nls and vscode-nls-dev in VSCode. Provides tooltips, duplicate string or key detection, and code actions to help you localize your VSCode extension.

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VSCode Extension Localization Helper

An extension to help you work with vscode-nls and vscode-nls-dev to add localization to your own extension.

Features

Show externalized string value when hovering on key

package json hover feature

Externalized string key completion suggestions

package json completion feature

Peek externalized string value

package json peek feature


Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release, focused on linking your package.json to the relevant package.nls.json file.

Provides hovers on "%translated.string.keys%" in package.json files to show the string value pulled from the package.nls.json. Provides "Go To Definition" and "Peek Definition" for the keys.

Provides completion suggestions when editing a package.json file with an associated package.nls.json file. When editing a json value starting with "% matching keys from the package.nls.json will be shown.


Feature Wish List Items

Features to be added in future releases:

  • Diagnostics for package.json files to detect:
    • Untranslated titles and other user facing strings
      • "title" : "Untranslated string"
    • NLS keys with no match in the package.nls.json
      • "title" : "%missing.key%"
  • Code actions for adding missing package.nls.json, or adding untranslated strings to a package.nls.json
  • Diagnostics for package.nls.json to detect duplicate string values
  • Settings to turn of diagnostics detection
  • Integration with string externalization in source code:
    • Detect duplicate string or key values passed to the vscode-nls.loadMessageBundle().localize function.
    • Code action for wrapping string in localize() call.

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Helps manage working with vscode-nls and vscode-nls-dev in VSCode. Provides tooltips, duplicate string or key detection, and code actions to help you localize your VSCode extension.

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