I’ve already added a few instances, as can be seen above, but let’s add another one by clicking on the plus (+) sign on the top right of connection explorer.

Clicking on the icon will bring up ApexSQL server explorer which is used for connecting to MySQL or MariaDB instances using TCP/IP or a local socket or pipe: Once the installation is complete, you’ll see one additional icon in the Activity Bar. To install the extension, click the Install button shown below: At the moment of writing this article, the official product version is 2020.3.19. Start typing the name of the VS Code extension, and it should pop-up in the search results. I’m gonna go with the integrated extension manager, but feel free to use any of the other two methods.īring up the Extensions view by clicking on the Extensions icon in the Activity Bar on the left side of code editor or go to View | Extensions from the main menu: The extension can be installed either from Marketplace, integrated extension manager inside Visual Studio Code, or using the VSIX installation file available as a download on this page. With that in mind, let’s fire up the code editor, install the extension, and see what it can do. Judging by the public roadmap, the extension is on an aggressive release schedule with lots of features coming up soon. IntroductionĬreated to meet the demands of developers by the team who’s responsible for providing free killer tools for SQL Server, this recently published VS Code extension enables users to connect to MySQL and MariaDB servers in the code editor, allowing them to run queries, perform object searches, export query results, and more. So, let’s see how we can customize Visual Studio Code to suit your MySQL and MariaDB development and management needs by installing an extension from Marketplace, ApexSQL Database Power Tools for VS Code. However, some common programming languages are not supported out-of-the-box, but support can be easily added by installing extensions from the VS Code Marketplace.

For the majority of programming languages, support ships in the box.

VS Code has been a very popular code editor because it has support for almost every popular programming language. In this article, I’ll walk you through setting up Visual Studio Code for MySQL and MariaDB development using a third-party VS Code extension and give an overview of the basic features.

Heidisql osx