What is Identifize?

Visual Studio Code is a free source-code editor made by Microsoft and available for Windows, Linux and macOS. Visual Studio Code is built with extensibility in mind. From the user interface to the editing experience, almost every part of the application can be customized and enhanced through the Extension API. In fact, many core features of the application are built as extensions and use the same Extension API.

Identifize is an extension for Visual Studio Code, built with Node.js and published by Finite Wisdom, that makes it easy to format identifiers by replacing non-alphanumeric characters in the selection(s) with either hyphens or underscores, and forcing the entire string to either lowercase or uppercase.

This is useful for environments that have a convention for how identifiers are formatted. For example, identifiers with uppercase letters and underscores (e.g. NEW_STORE_COUNT) are often used in C/C++. Identifiers with hyphens (e.g. new-store-table-id) are often used in CSS, while lowercase identifiers with underscores (e.g. new_store_count) are often used in SQL.

The commands made available in the Command Palette by this extensions are:

You can configure the default keyboard shortcuts for these commands using the Keyboard Shortcuts page:

Since it was released in December 2020, the Parenthesize extension has been installed by 314 users.