How to disable codelens in VS code?

Question

You can enable or disable code lense by setting the editor.codeLens setting in user settings (see https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/editor/editingevolved#_reference-information for more info).

Update: in the new settings editor of VSCode, it's as simple as typing codelens in the search and ticking the first checkbox in the results:

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For me, the setting that fixed it was:

"editor.codeLens": false

in my user preferences json file.

Step by step:

1- Press CTRL+SHIFT+P and search for "User Settings", and open settings.json file. This file sits under:

%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json

2- On right panel override setting "editor.codeLens" with "false" value.

To specifically disable the references in the C# editor, add this to your User Settings:

"csharp.referencesCodeLens.enabled": false

This specifically hides the number of references in the C# editor while keeping the rest of CodeLens' features intact.

MotKohn also pointed out that you can use javascript.referencesCodeLens.enabled or typescript.referencesCodeLens.enabled below. Make sure you give them some points if that helped!

I disabled it by going to file | preferences | settings

Finally:

Workspace | Text Editor | (scroll down a little)

For people using any Linux OS:

1. Go to File > Preferences > Settings
2. Under drop-down Text Editor, search for Code Lens and disable it.

You can do it using a single click on VS Code. Just install the extension Setting Toggle made by Ho-Wan on VS Code. Once you install, click on T as shown in the image to toggle Codelens.