VSCode Intellisense - visual-studio-code

I am typically used to period bringing up intellisense options. When writing a C# file in VSCode, I see intellisense as I type, but disappear upon completion. It does not provide any follow up suggestions, unlike Visual Studio. Is this just me? Did I break something? I've tried uninstalling and re-installing, and removing all but the C# extension, but nothing seems to help.

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How to activate intellisense in VScode? (c#)

I just want to activate autocompletion in VS code. There's a lot of answers to that questions but NONE of it actually helped me. (so please don't mark as duplicate when other answers DON'T help) Apparently, you have to press "Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar" but this doesn't work or me. I don't see any option in the nav menu to toggle a completion mode either. Or maybe you need to create a file in your folder? I don't know! non of this worked and I don't even know how it did work when I've seen intellisense! So please help me find a way to do this, and it'll better if this would be permanent. Thanks.
First you must have an internet connection.
Then you should find extensions sidebar in vs code(you can open it by press 'Ctrl+Shift+X' or open it in top of the screen, View->Extensions).
After that you should search for C# extension that made by Microsoft(search C# in search textbox and click on first result)
Picture of searching C# extension
Then install that extension by clicking on install button
Wait a few minutes to install (e.g it took 15 minutes for me)
Now you have C# extension.
After that you should close the VsCode and open again.
Now you have auto completion (if not, you probably should press 'Ctrl+Space' while coding)
If you want to have smart auto completion, VsCode doesn't have IntelliCode for C#. IntelliCode is just for Visual Studio.
But you can use Tabnine or Copilot extension(you can search and install it like installing C# extension but you should search tabnine instead of C#)
Tabnine is good but it couldn't help me like Intellicode in Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Code: where does MS WScript IntelliSense support come from?

I've been working on some scripts for Windows using Visual Studio Code and was surprised that when I type WScript on a line the IntelliSense pops up the correct code completion information, even on my Mac.
I've read the documentation on the VSC website and suspect its either coming out of the built-in JavaScript support or Automatic Type Acquisition from some included library but really would like to find out exactly where this is coming from. So far either my Google-Fu is or nobody has written a thing about it because I can't find any information anywhere. Can anyone answer this one?
It's built into TypeScript. In VSCode, it's actually easy to find the source because you can press F12 on the definition in code, and it will show you the .d.ts:

visual studio code saves cobol with strange characters

When I first started using Visual Studio Code for my cobol, it was working fine. But lately when I try to compile my code after saving it in vsc it gives errors about there being weird characters.
If I do the same changes in Notepad++ it works fine. I've been going through the settings in vsc but I cannot find anything wrong in there. But then again I don't know that much about it. I'm also using the extension cobol syntax support from bitlang.
Does anybody know how this is possible? Is there some setting that messes this up? I cannot really show any screens or anything. since this is all work related and I'm not allowed to share.
My guess is, that this is related to the code page used to save the project.
Notepad++ by default uses UTF-8. you may need to change the code page on Visual Studio Code to UTF-8.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/settings

VS Code - changing tab disables extensions. What am I doing wrong?

Using Visual Studio Code I have installed a few extensions (like Guidelines showing vertical dotted lines between pairs of matching brackets). When I start VS Code I can see all my extensions working fine in the Editor window.
However, when I switch to another tab within VS Code, I no longer see the Guidelines or evidence of any extension working in the new editor tab. Worst of all, when I then switch back to my original tab, all the guidelines etc that were there a few seconds ago are gone!
To fix the issue I have to restart VS Code. This can't be right! Has anyone hit the same problem?
I have tried uninstalling VS Code where it warns me some components could not be uninstalled and I have to do them manually. It doesn't tell me which. When I then reinstall, the extensions are visible (without me reinstalling them) but again I hit the same issues as above.
Please help?
Seems like having too many extensions installed, or perhaps one that is misbehaving behind the scenes, causes this problem. Reduce the number of installed extensions. Use Help->Developer Tools -> Console to see if there are any messages relating to the Extensions server

How do I auto-indent Python code in Visual Studio Code?

I'm using Visual Studio Code (not Visual Studio) on Linux and I can't seem to find out how to turn on auto-indentation for Python. I've looked all over preferences, spent some time on Google, and can't find anything.
Does anyone know how to do this?
In VS Code you can set the indentation in several places :
General/Workspace settings (bottom bar),
User settings,
language formatter settings.
When using Python, no matter what settings you set, all of them are overridden by the autopep8Args value of the autopep8 language formatter setting, which has an indent size of 4.
By default, autopep8 is used as VS Code Python formatter, but there are others, like yapf.
To update the indent size of this formatter, search in your user settings the "python.formatting.autopep8Args" and set it to : ["--indent-size=2"],
"python.formatting.autopep8Args": ["--indent-size=2"],
Visual Studio Code doesn't have much support for Python (yet), aside from syntax-highlighting, and per-file intellisense (meaning it'll provide suggestions for symbols that have been found within the current file).
I'm willing to bet that the Visual Studio Code team will, eventually, increase their support for Python within Visual Studio Code, and with this, they'll likely add support for auto-indentation.
In the meantime, it might be worth trying this Visual Studio Code extension, which aims to add better support for Python, into Visual Studio Code.
The extension does add auto-indentation for Python, to Visual Studio Code, along with many other features.
Happy scripting!
I auto-format python with autopep8, vscode can use it. It can be easily configured for tab-size and other stuff creating the config file: $HOME/.config/pep8
Here an example of that file:
[pep8]
indent-size = 2
max-line-length = 100