Debugging, Workbench, Raspberry Pi Guidance Highlight VS Code Update -- Visual Studio Magazine

Debugging, Workbench, Raspberry Pi Guidance Highlight VS Code Update

By David Ramel
04/06/2021

As regular users of Visual Studio Code know by now (courtesy of the release notes document that loads upon opening), the super-popular dev tool has received its monthly update.

The latest update to Microsoft's open source-based, cross-platform code editor features better debugging, many Workbench improvements and new guidance for Raspberry Pi installations.

All that and more comes in version 1.55, the March 2021 update, which as customary was publicized early in the next month.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation officially embraced VS Code in February, making it much easier to use the editor on the small single-board computer popular in both hobbyist and professional camps. That embrace made VS Code available via Raspberry Pi OS apt, a command-line utility for installing, updating, removing and managing deb packages on Ubuntu, Debian and related Linux distros.

Writing About VS Code Coming to Raspberry Pi Using VS Code on a Raspberry Pi — **[Click on image for larger view.]** Using VS Code on a Raspberry Pi to Write About VS Code Coming to Raspberry Pi *(source: Jim Bennett).*

In the new update to VS Code, the dev team announced a new topic providing installation guidance.

Debugging was also improved with breakpoint functionality, including a new inline menu for editing conditions and hit counts, whereas before the inline edit button automatically chose what condition to edit. JavaScript debugging was also enhanced.

**[Click on image for larger view.]** Editing Breakpoint Conditions and Hit Counts *(source: Microsoft).*

The VS Code Workbench received much more attention, however, with a host of tweaks, fixes, improvements and new features, including:

Updated brand icons for macOS Big Sur

[Click on image for larger view.] "We've been working on updating the VS Code brand icons on macOS to match the new visual style of Big Sur." (source: Microsoft).
Improved sash customization
Improved List/Tree navigation
Tab decorations on by default
Resizing columns in Keyboard Shortcuts editor
Extension management improvements
Negative text filtering in Problems view
Reporting Marketplace issues
Configure tree hover delay
Search in Open Editors
Control the font size of the Source Control input

The usual array of tweaks and fixes were also applied to Accessibility, the Integrated Terminal, Notebooks and much more.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer at Converge 360.

Printable Format

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

Compare New GitHub Copilot Free Plan for Visual Studio/VS Code to Paid Plans

The free plan restricts the number of completions, chat requests and access to AI models, being suitable for occasional users and small projects.
Diving Deep into .NET MAUI

Ever since someone figured out that fiddling bits results in source code, developers have sought one codebase for all types of apps on all platforms, with Microsoft's latest attempt to further that effort being .NET MAUI.
Copilot AI Boosts Abound in New VS Code v1.96

Microsoft improved on its new "Copilot Edit" functionality in the latest release of Visual Studio Code, v1.96, its open-source based code editor that has become the most popular in the world according to many surveys.
AdaBoost Regression Using C#

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the AdaBoost.R2 algorithm for regression problems (where the goal is to predict a single numeric value). The implementation follows the original source research paper closely, so you can use it as a guide for customization for specific scenarios.
Versioning and Documenting ASP.NET Core Services

Building an API with ASP.NET Core is only half the job. If your API is going to live more than one release cycle, you're going to need to version it. If you have other people building clients for it, you're going to need to document it.