VS Code DMs
Direct Messages for Visual Studio Code
VS Code DMs launched on December 30, 2020 with 81 votes, #531 of 3,242 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
Worked on this the past month, it recently hit 100+ installs! Level up your collaboration experience—create Group DMs, share code snippets, debug bugs (or add new features), and check your developer friends' activity status—all through your GitHub handle.
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Direct Messages for VS Code
Direct Messages is a simple way of messaging your developer friends and collaborating with them through VSCode. A complete gallery of all the working processes of the extension can be found here . Install the extension from here or search it on the VS Code marketplace. Once you have it, you'll need to login through GitHub to start messaging. On completing the authentication, you can click on the Direct Messages icon on the sidebar, and it will load all of your mutual contacts from GitHub. This is a beta release of the extension Direct Messages. We, as developers, want to give you the best possible user experience, and thus we encourage you to open issues on our GitHub repository for any…from marketplace.visualstudio.com
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