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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – June 2022

June 23, 2022 Jun 23, 2022 06/23/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the June update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have a feature-packed edition this time, including some major Spring visualization upgrade for Spring developers, user experience improvements as well as fundamental experience enhancements. Spring Boot Visualization Upgrade We have some good news for Spring developers! ...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – June 2022

June 2, 2022 Jun 2, 2022 06/2/22

Jialuo Gan

Hi everyone, welcome back to June update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the new application-centric view on Azure toolkit for IntelliJ that will make the interface more user-friendly. In addition, we have added support for more Azure services. For Gradle plugins, we have some new features for Azure Web Apps and ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2022

May 22, 2022 May 22, 2022 05/22/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the May update of Visual Studio Code Java. In this month's update, we are going to share exciting improvements to our user experience regarding signature help and code completion as well as new Gradle features. Let's get started! Signature Help Improvement Signature Help displays the signature of a method in a tooltip...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – April 2022

April 19, 2022 Apr 19, 2022 04/19/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the April update of Visual Studio Code Java. This time we are bringing you many exciting updates regarding our fundamental experience improvement including Java 18 support, inlay hints for parameter names, new language server status UX, lambda expression support in debugging and so on. Let's get into it. Microsoft ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – March 2022

March 21, 2022 Mar 21, 2022 03/21/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the March update of Visual Studio Code Java. This time we are going to bring you some recent update regarding our code completion optimization, Maven improvements and pre-release version of our Java extensions. Let's get right into it! More shortcuts to generate code snippets Because our language support for Java is ...

Join us at Microsoft JDConf 2022

March 7, 2022 Mar 7, 2022 03/7/22

Nate Ceres

Join us for the second Microsoft JDConf event on May 4-5, 2022. JDConf is a virtual, Java focused conference where developers can come together to share interesting topics and stay engaged. Learn about the latest cloud development trends, best practices, tips, tricks, and more.

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 2022

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the February update of Visual Studio Code Java and this time we have a special edition for education! Many schools are back in session after the winter holidays, and in order to provide student and educators a better experience using Java on Visual Studio Code this semester, we have been making a series of improvements ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 2022

January 20, 2022 Jan 20, 2022 01/20/22

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the January edition of Visual Studio Code Java update! Since this is our first blog post of the new year, we are going to look back on highlights of 2021 and take a look at our roadmap for 2022! We also have some exciting feature updates so let us get started. Highlights of 2021 2021 was a productive year for Java on ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – November 2021

December 15, 2021 Dec 15, 2021 12/15/21

Nick Zhu

Hi everyone, welcome to the November edition of the Visual Studio Code Java update! In this end-of-year post, we are going to look at several new improvements related to fundamental Java development experience as well as our updates related to encoding issues. Inner-loop dev experience directly impacts developer's day-to-day productivity ...

Say goodbye to “.project” files in Language Support for Java™ 1.1.0

December 4, 2021 Dec 4, 2021 12/4/21

Nick Zhu

Recent 1.1.0 release of Language Support for Java™ contains an important update: now when the extension imports a new Java project, the project metadata files ( .project , .classpath , settings, etc.) will no longer be generated in the project path by default. This issue was reported more than three years ago and it has been there since 2018...

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