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October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks.
Refactoring
Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method
After performing extract to variable/constant/method refactoring,
June 24, 2019Jun 24, 201906/24/19Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks.
June 14, 2019Jun 14, 201906/14/19It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and Microsoft, which later became one of the most popular extensions for Visual Studio Code with more than 2.7 million installations.
May 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We’d also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle.
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We’d like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including
Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates
Performance improvements
Standalone file supports
Multiple source folders support
Easy launch for multi-main-class projects
Hide temporary files
Bulk generate getters and setters
Test configuration and report update
Including IntelliCode to Java Extension Pack
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
December 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like AI-assisted IntelliSense and statement completion, code formatting, and style rule inference. During SpringOne 2018, we announced that we will bring those productivity boosters to Java developers and now we’re happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java in the IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio Code.
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like contextual IntelliSense, code formatting and style rule inference. We are happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java with IntelliCode Extension for VS Code.
