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The team has recently been busy improving the getting started and set-up experiences, now providing a new Create Environment command.
10/10/2022
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"There is now a VS Code Community Discussions site for extension authors as a gathering place to ask questions, connect with other developers, and show off great work."
10/07/2022
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"Not only you will get improved auto complete suggestions when writing Python code in notebook files, but you will also be able to leverage refactoring features such as extract variable, extract method as well as auto imports."
09/07/2022
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Despite August being a popular month for Visual Studio Code engineers to vacation, the dev team managed to churn out a bunch of new features in the regular monthly update, bringing the lightweight, open source-based, cross-platform code editor to v1.71.
09/01/2022
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Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.
08/31/2022
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A new "getting started" experience highlights the August 2022 update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code.
08/30/2022
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The regular monthly update to Java on Visual Studio Code sees multiple improvements to Spring functionality along with a couple community contributions that enhance debugging.
08/26/2022
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A maintainer of JavaScript/TypeScript for the VS Code team has completely changed the way Markdown works in the editor, replacing (and adding to) functionality that was previously baked in and augmented by extensions.
08/19/2022
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A team of researchers recently presented data about vulnerabilities in apps built on the open source Electron framework for creating desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
08/19/2022
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The idea of the cmdlet is to help inform users who may be unaware of benefits, new features and changes that could impact their automation, performance and security.
08/08/2022
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"The Python extension walkthrough has been improved to more easily guide users to installing Python when needed, and selecting it in VS Code."
08/08/2022
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Here's what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.70 as highlighted by the dev team, with links for full information.
08/05/2022
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A developer-oriented, get-started-on-Azure command-line tool from Microsoft is in a public preview.
07/19/2022
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The big news in the July 2022 update to Microsoft's Java on Visual Studio Code extensions is that they all now fully support the Lombok library.
07/18/2022
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Exploring the special relationship among VS Code, Python and data science, which has resulted in nearly 158 million installs of related Microsoft dev tools and numerous No. 1 rankings in various surveys.
07/12/2022
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In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language server.
07/11/2022
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This week, along with announcing the regular monthly update to Visual Studio Code (now at v1.69), Microsoft added a surprise: a private preview of VS Code Server, serving up the backend functionality that allows the editor to be run remotely or in a browser.
07/08/2022
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My Copilot does a lot of cool things, but sometimes it repeats itself and doesn't seem to want to compute the value of pi.
07/07/2022
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Dev team improves functionality of Spring Boot dashboard, gives it separate view.
06/30/2022
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Stack Overflow's huge developer survey is out for 2022, showing that Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio have cemented their positions as the two most popular IDEs among more than 70,000 developers who were polled.
06/23/2022
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"An unacceptable abuse of power from the stewards of the platform, and a betrayal of the community."
06/16/2022
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Microsoft now lets Visual Studio Code users financially sponsor authors of their favorite extensions.
06/13/2022
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Very opinionated tool is named after its creator, Brett Cannon, engineering manager for the Python extension who is also a member of the Python Steering Council.
06/10/2022
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Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling.
06/09/2022
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They help cloud application developers work with Azure services for web site hosting, databases, serverless computing, containers, managing virtual machines and much more.
06/03/2022