How to render a user link in a markdown document in Visual Studio Code

Question

I'm in the process of moving some documentation from Confluence to Azure DevOps, so I'm really new to everything Azure DevOps.

I find the Azure DevOps wiki page editor unfriendly, so I prefer to edit my markdown in Visual Studio Code.

My latest issue was to add a link to a user. I eventually discovered when experimenting in the Azure DevOps editor, that I needed to press the @ key and it would allow a search for a user.

My markdown now contains @<My User> and in Azure DevOps it renders correctly showing @MyUser.

In Visual Studio Code, in the preview pane, it renders as @.

Does anyone know of a Visual Studio Code extension that fixes this, so that I could see @MyUser in the Visual Studio Code preview pane?

Answer 1

You can try to use the VS Code extension "Azure DevOps Wiki Markdown".

After installing this extension, in the 'setting.json' file, you need to provide your organization name and your PAT (Personal Access Token) so that the extension can connect to your organization.

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