The RDFox VS Code Extension: Auto-complete, Syntax Highlighting and Custom Icons

Did you know RDFox has its own VS Code extension? It is designed to make your RDFox workflow easier and more intuitive with features such as auto-complete, syntax highlighting and custom icons for RDF file formats.

Install it from your browser or search for RDFox in the VS Code Marketplace.

Recently, we added several new functionalities designed to further streamline working with RDFox knowledge graphs in VS Code.

In RDFox scripts, the extension will offer to auto-complete RDFox commands and provide a short description. Additionally, if you hover over a command, you can now see its full documentation, with links that will help you explore further in your browser.

In SPARQL and Datalog files, you are also able to use auto-complete for names of standard and RDFox-specific SPARQL functions, and we have tweaked the default settings for RDF languages to help VS Code provide full IRIs and variable names as suggestions.

Finally, the extension also introduces some UI elements, including a button that will allow you to open a SPARQL query from a file in the RDFox Web Console, and buttons for uploading and deleting Datalog Rules with a single click. All you need to do first is use the gear icon to set your datastore and endpoint.

We hope these features will be helpful for both new RDFox users who will be able to more easily explore the available commands and functions, as well as RDFox experts who just need a quick reference or want to speed up their work.

Install it from your browser or search for RDFox in the VS Code Marketplace.

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