Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code

Is it possible to show whitespace characters, like the space character, in Visual Studio Code?

There doesn't appear to be an option for it in the settings.json (though it is an option in Atom.io), and I haven't been able to display whitespace characters using CSS.

Solution 1:

VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater

As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces:

"editor.renderWhitespace": "all", 

Before VS Code 1.6.0

Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true:

"editor.renderWhitespace": true

Solution 2:

It can also be done via the main menu View -> Render Whitespace