diff --git a/.vscode/settings.json b/.vscode/settings.json
index fa9e9b637..847496183 100644
--- a/.vscode/settings.json
+++ b/.vscode/settings.json
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
   "files.associations": {
     "input.h": "c"
   },
+  "files.insertFinalNewline": true, // automatically adds a newline at the end of files
   "rust-analyzer.linkedProjects": [
     "./Cargo.toml",
     "./examples/sample-kmdf-driver/Cargo.toml",