Yaojin Yang

Senior Program Manager, Developer Division at Microsoft

A PM with experiences on developing commerce products and now is focusing on Java on VS Code.

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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2021

June 15th, 2021
Welcome to May’s updates on VS Code for Java. In this edition, we will share with you Java Formatter Settings Editor, generating tests from source file, debugging enhancement and Jupyter Notebook for Java.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2021

May 13th, 2021
Welcome to VS Code update for Java. Another busy and productive month. Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner extensions got new features.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2021

April 20th, 2021
It’s blogging time again. Welcome to VS Code update for Java. In the last couple of months, our engineers have been working on a few very important things. Now, it’s time to uncover. Let’s start.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2021

March 14th, 2021
Welcome to the February edition of VS Code update for Java. Spring is approaching. It’s a season for refreshing, no exception to VS Code. In this edition, we will present you with our experiment of a new Welcome Page and re-designed icons. We hope you like the new looking and more importantly, enjoy the upcoming Spring season.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2021

February 8th, 2021
Welcome to the first edition of VS Code update for Java in 2021. We got some questions around how to run tests on VS Code, so in this blog we will walk you through the how. Meanwhile, we will share the news of releasing Azure Spring Cloud extension. The extension is for you to create, manage and deploy apps to Azure Spring Cloud service.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – December 2020

January 11th, 2021
Happy New Year to everyone. In this edition, besides sharing the latest enhancements made in December, we would like to invite you for a quick poll, which will take less than 2 minutes, but is valuable for us to learn what will make VS Code a better tool for you in 2021.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – November 2020

December 14th, 2020
In this update, we are excited to announce a new wizard for Java runtime configuration. The wizard streamlines JDK configuration experience for your project. Please, try it and let us know how you like it. In addition, we share two enhancement features, 1) infer selection range from cursor position and 2) export JAR through custom task.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – October 2020

November 16th, 2020
In this update, we will introduce some ‘small’ new things on debugging and project management that you would love. Some of these are directly inspired by you.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – September 2020

October 15th, 2020
In September, we launched a new VS Code installer called Coding Pack for Java. In this edition, we would like to focus on best practices of setting development environment. Regardless of whether you just want to explore or have already been using VS Code for projects or studies, we believe you all will benefit from these practices.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2020

September 10th, 2020
In this update, we will focus on performance improvements and project management.