A trouble with VS Code

[Truman]

Alright, the last upgrade of Window 10 unexpectedly brought VS Code so I decided to give it a try. Started with following short tutorial from this forum. After installing several extensions something happened and my drop-down menu became transparent gray which is very irritating.

Any idea what is going on here?

also, one more question:

Failed to save 'helloVSC.py': The content of the file is newer. Please compare your version with the file contents.
What does this mean? Why can't I simply save my file after making some edits?

I have no doubts that VSC is a very powerful editor but Notepad++ looks so simple comparing to it. Maybe I'm not ready yet.

[Larz60+]

I've had some trouble with extensions, and now use only a very limited set:
Bracket Pair Colorizer
Python extension pack - Jayamanne
highlight-icemode
PlasticAB

Since I've done this, all has been OK.

[Truman]

Maybe I should just reinstall VSC. We'll see...

[Truman]

I disabled all extensions, the issue was solved, and then enabled one by one. The one that brought trouble is PlasticAB. After I uninstalled it things are ok again.
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[Larz60+]

I believe PlasticAB was written by Snippsat. I do have that one installed, and haven't had any problems.
One thing I should mention is that I don't use the Microsoft extensions as I had some issues, but use extensions written by Jayamanne instead.

One other thing I always do is turn telemetry off, otherwise Microsoft can transfer whatever they want from your code files.
To do this: File-->Preferences-->settings .. Type telemetry and un-check all.

[Truman]

I believe PlasticAB was written by Snippsat. I do have that one installed, and haven't had any problems.
One thing I should mention is that I don't use the Microsoft extensions as I had some issues, but use extensions written by Jayamanne instead.

Snippsat from our forum?

One other thing I always do is turn telemetry off, otherwise Microsoft can transfer whatever they want from your code files.
To do this: File-->Preferences-->settings .. Type telemetry and un-check all.

Thank you, will follow your advice.

[Larz60+]

Snippsat from our forum?

Yes, I'm fairly sure he did this one.

[snippsat]

I did not write PlasticAB it was just a theme i did use when making VS Code from start.
Now i use Flat UI(Dark) can recommend this Theme.

[Truman]

Flat UI also has a white background which is one of the reasons why I like Notepad++. Will definitely use it.

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Now I have a problem with executing files.
When I go to Terminal>Run task it opens the box "select the task to run". What should I do then?

[perfringo]

I took another approach - selected theme and overwrote default settings in settings.json. Set everything to my personal likings (currently have 124 lines in this file, already forgetting what some of them setting :-)).