Nick Zhu

Senior Program Manager, Developer Division at Microsoft

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Java on Visual Studio Code – May 2023

May 30th, 2023
Hi everyone, welcome to our May update for Visual Studio Code Java! In this month's blog, we have tons of new features covering performance improvement, user experience as well as Spring Boot integration, so let's get started. Built-in Java Profile Templates in VS Code Profiles is a recent feature from VS Code that allows you to quickly ...

Java on Visual Studio Update – April 2023

May 8th, 2023
Hi everyone, welcome to our April update for Visual Studio Code Java! In this blog we are going to talk about important debugging experience improvements, profile support in Maven extension, new Java Project Explorer UX, and Spring Boot Dashboard visualization enhancements. There is a ton of cover, so let's get started. Profile Support in ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2023

March 30th, 2023
Hi everyone, welcome to our March update! In this blog we will bring you fundamental improvements such as smarter code completion for AWT packages, more smooth experience for running Java programs as well as better Spring Boot integration with Azure Spring Apps. Smarter Code Completion for AWT packages The AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit) ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2023

February 28th, 2023
Hi everyone, welcome to our February update! In this blog we will bring you new features related to JUnit 5 parallel testing as well as new filter widget for Spring Boot dashboard. There is also some exciting news from GitHub Copilot, so let's get started. JUnit 5 Parallel Testing Support JUnit 5 is a popular testing framework for Java ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2023

January 31st, 2023
Hi everyone, welcome to our first blog post of 2023! There are several exciting updates related to Spring extensions, code editing and performance that we wanted to share with you, so let's get started. New Walkthrough for Spring Extension Pack Walkthrough is a multi-step, wizard-style experience for onboarding users to an extension ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – December 2022

December 15th, 2022
Hi everyone, we are near the end of year. Looking back on 2022, there are a few highlights that we wanted to share with you all: Highlights from 2022 Major Visualization Experience Upgrade for Spring Boot Extensions Starting earlier this year, we began to make a series of improvements on Spring Boot dashboard, aiming to increase Spring ...

Two million Java developers on Visual Studio Code! November 2022 Update

November 27th, 2022
Hi everyone, we are excited to share that now there are over two million Java developers on Visual Studio Code, this wouldn't be possible without all the support from the community and our users, so thank you! For November update, we are bringing you new code editing feature such as postfix completion, optimized organize import. In addition...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – October 2022

October 21st, 2022
Hi everyone, welcome to the October update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have brought a lot of improvements in code editing and debugging experience this time, so let's get started! Debugging Experience Enhancements Visual indicator for inline breakpoints Consider a line like this: Stream.of("Frank").map(name -> name.toUpperCase...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – September 2022

September 15th, 2022
Hi everyone, welcome to the September update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have tons of exciting new features this time, and there are improvements in many areas such as project import, Spring support, remote debugging and unit testing, so let's get started! Protobuf (Protocol Buffer) project support  Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2022

August 25th, 2022
Hi everyone, welcome to the August update of Visual Studio Code Java. In this month's update, we have brought more exciting features for Spring as well as improvements for build tools and debugging experience. Let's get started! Spring enhancements Spring enhancements has been one of our top focuses this year. In our latest release, we are ...