The bottom line is we finally have some level of development support for M queries. Note: You may have to update to the latest version of VS Code to install the extension. If so, you can just open the file from within VS Code. Alternatively, you may already have an M/Power Query expression saved from Notepad as an M file. Once you have the extension installed you can copy an M query from the Advanced Editor window in Power BI Desktop and paste it into a new file in VS Code. Here’s a simple example of an M query in VS Code (with the extension): M Query in Visual Studio Code Per the overview page the initial release includes colorization, auto-closing, and surrounding support. Here’s a link to it in the Visual Studio Marketplace. These pages enable various formatting customizations but are ignored if ClangFormat is enabled.About two weeks ago Version 1.0.0 of the Power Query M Language extension for Visual Studio code was released: M Query Extension in the VS Code Extensions Marketplace Indentation, New Lines, Spacing, Wrapping pages

You can also specify to run it only for manually invoked formatting commands Format Document (Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D) or Format Selection (Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F). If such a file is present in a project folder, Visual Studio uses it to format all source code files in that folder and its subfolders.īy default, Visual Studio runs clangformat.exe in the background applies formatting as you type. You can also create a custom format definition. You can choose which of these common formatting conventions to apply to all your projects: LLVM, Google, Chromium, Mozilla, or WebKit. Configuring ClangFormat optionsĬlangFormat support is enabled by default.

ClangFormat is a utility that makes it easy to style and format your code based on a set of rules that can be configured in a. The page also has options for configuring support for ClangFormat version 5.0. This page has options for formatting statements and blocks as you type them.

For more information, see Personalize the Visual Studio IDE. The Visual Studio edition that you have and the settings that you use determine these elements.

Your computer might show different names or locations for some of the Visual Studio user interface elements in the following instructions.

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