Vscode-remote-release: Remote-Containers: Sync (extension) settings via devcontainers.json

[nphmuller]

One of the great features of the remote tools for containers is that I can share the required extensions for my development team. However, it currently seems that there is no way to specifiy custom settings for these extensions.

For example: I want to share the Trim whitespace on save setting for the Trailing Spaces extension. This setting is by default disabled. Currently there seems to be no way to enable this setting for my entire team through devcontainers.json (or another way that I can check into my git repositry).

[kieferrm]

Give this a try: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-try-java/blob/f041d909d83a60cd394713bdfc7f8a3edd3285e2/.devcontainer/Dockerfile#L9

[Chuxel]

@nphmuller The specifics of how this works is described here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_container-specific-settings

[nphmuller]

@kieferrm @Chuxel
Thanks, I missed that! Example of RTFM 😁