Setting up VSCode

VSCode stub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio_Code

Location of function/class braces

According to the Moodle coding guidelines

https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Coding_style#Functions_and_methods_2

"the brace should always be written on same line as the function name."

By default VSCode uses the PSR coding convention https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/#1-overview that braces appear on the next line when the internal formatter is used. (Cmd -K-F on OSX).

This can be changed via a file called

omnisharp.json

Which can be placed either in the root of the project or as a configuration in the users home dir, e.g. ~/.omnisharp/omnisharp.json

The following example will put braces on the same line as the function/class declaration

{

   "FormattingOptions": {
       "NewLinesForBracesInLambdaExpressionBody": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInAnonymousMethods": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInAnonymousTypes": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInControlBlocks": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInTypes": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInMethods": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInProperties": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInObjectCollectionArrayInitializers": false,
       "NewLinesForBracesInAccessors": false,
       "NewLineForElse": false,
       "NewLineForCatch": false,
       "NewLineForFinally": false
   }

}