How to persist information for a vscode extension?

Question

I\'m planning to write a Visual Studio Code extension and it need to save some information for example a counter. The user can press a shortcut to increase or decrease the c

Answer 1

You're probably looking for the Memento API. The ExtensionContext has two different memento instances you can access:

• workspaceState

  A memento object that stores state in the context of the currently opened workspace.

• globalState

  A memento object that stores state independent of the current opened workspace.

Both survive VSCode updates to my knowledge.