I have tried this:
JQuery intellisense in Visual Studio Code
and this:
http://shrekshao.github.io/2016/06/20/vscode-01/
But it does nothing, VS C
I had the same problem and google brought me here. I added the type jsconfig.json and "typeAcquisition" and still nothing.
Turns out you have to have node and npm installed. Even if you are not using them for package management and are importing jquery from a CDN.
From the Docs
Many popular libraries ship with typings files so you get IntelliSense for them automatically. For libraries that do not include typings, VS Code's Automatic Type Acquisition will automatically install community maintained typings file for
Automatic type acquisition requires npmjs, the Node.js package manager, which is included with the Node.js runtime. In this image you can see IntelliSense, including the method signature, parameter info, and the method's documentation for the popular lodash library.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/nodejs/working-with-javascript
So vs code uses npm for auto type acquisition.
May be super basic, but it solved my problem so I hope it helps someone else too.
I also used the configuration in jsconfig.json as described by kwood. Not sure I needed to specify it manually after installin npm but it is working so i'm not asking questions