Showing inline parameter hints on Visual Studio Code

What are inline parameter hints?

When using a literal in a method call, some IDEs have the capability to annotate those with the name of the parameter. This makes it much easier to understand what their value represents.

Some IDEs from JetBrains have this functionality enabled by default:

• Android Studio
• IntelliJ
• PyCharm
• Storm
• ReSharper (Visual Studio plugin for .NET projects)

There are also other IDEs that support this inline hint feature like Eclipse and NetBeans.

Example of how inline parementer hints work on your code.

One place where inline parameter hints become particularly useful, is when passing in null values or booleans. What do the null and false arguments represent here?

Lack of arguments representation in peopleService.Find() method.

The meaning of these becomes clear immediately when using inline parameter hints, without having to rely on using named arguments for readability:

Enabling inline parameter hints give some meaningful information of the parameters.

This feature can be enabled on Visual Studio Code by installing extensions.

To access this feature, you will need to search for inline parameter on VS Code Extensions Pane:

Look for “inline parameters” on Extensions Pane.

Here how inline parameters hints work on VS Code.

Unfortunately, most of the inline parameter hints extensions on VS Code are for JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP or Lua.

Reference:

Inline parameter name hints for C# and VB.NET in ReSharper and Rider

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liamhammett.inline-parameters