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Using the advanced functionality of the CodeQL for VS Code extension

The CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code adds rich language support for CodeQL and supports writing queries to find problems in codebases.

Who can use this feature?

CodeQL is available for the following repository types:

Organization-owned repositories with GitHub Advanced Security enabled

Telemetry in CodeQL for Visual Studio Code

If VS Code telemetry is enabled, GitHub will collect usage data and metrics for the purposes of helping the core developers to improve the CodeQL extension for VS Code.