Dev Toolbox for Visual Studio Code

Dev Toolbox for Visual Studio Code is an all-in-one text processing and utility extension designed to streamline developer workflows directly inside your editor. From generating unique identifiers and URL-safe slugs to performing complex text casing conversions, encoding transformations, and advanced line sorting, this toolset eliminates repetitive formatting tasks efficiently.

Core Features

  • Text Formatting & Case Conversion: Easily convert selected text into various programming case formats including camel case, Pascal case, snake case, screaming snake case, kebab case, train case, flat case, and uppercase, alongside locale-aware case conversions.
  • Slugification Utilities: Convert text into URL-safe slugs with diacritic removal and special character stripping, while intelligently preserving file extensions and supporting multi-cursor editing and file/folder renaming.
  • GUID Generation: Generate Globally Unique Identifiers in multiple formats including raw, registry, square brackets, and less-than sign formats.
  • Advanced Line Sorting & Cleanup: Perform Unicode-aware line sorting by text content (with case, numeric, and base-letter options) or by character length, alongside utilities to remove empty lines, non-printable characters, and leading or trailing whitespace.
  • Encoding & Conversions: Handle seamless Base64 and URL encoding/decoding, named HTML entities, decimal and hexadecimal character references, JavaScript UTF-16 and CSS Unicode escape sequences, Unicode code point notations, PCRE Unicode hexadecimal escapes, and custom hex code points.

Multi-Language Support And System Requirements

  • Supported Interface Languages: English, Magyar, Slovenčina, Čeština, Deutsch, Français, Polski, Български, Español, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português do Brasil, Русский, Türkçe, 简体中文, and 繁體中文.
  • System Prerequisites: No special requirements or external dependencies; operates directly within Visual Studio Code.

Installation Instructions

  1. Open Visual Studio Code.
  2. Navigate to the Extensions view by clicking the square extension icon on the Activity Bar on the side of the window or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+X (or Cmd+Shift+X on macOS).
  3. Type Playful Sparkle: Dev Toolbox into the search box.
  4. Locate the official extension published by Playful Sparkle and click the Install button.

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