Creating .pylintrc only doesn't work for me, so you need to tell VSCode that the .pylintrc is located in your root project folder:

• Create .pylintrc:

[MESSAGES CONTROL]
disable=C0103

• Modify ./.vscode/settings.json:

{
  "python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--rcfile=./.pylintrc"
  ]
}