Leveraging Server Manager when building VS Code extensions that connect to InterSystems servers

It was encouraging to see more people building VS Code extensions for the recent contest. However I noticed that of of the three extensions requiring credentials with which to make their connections only mine, gj :: dataLoader, leverages the long-established and officially-supported InterSystems Server Manager extension to obtain the connection definitions and to handle credentials securely.

More details on how to do this can be found in the extension's README.

If you have problems using this capability, or an opinion about why extensions should "roll their own" solution in this area, let's discuss it here.