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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – August 2022

August 25, 2022 Aug 25, 2022 08/25/22
Nick Zhu
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 ...

Java on Azure Tooling Update – August 2022

August 17, 2022 Aug 17, 2022 08/17/22
Jialuo Gan
Hi everyone, welcome back to August update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the AKS support and Virtual Machine support. In addition, we make some improvements for users to search for subscriptions and find our tutorials easily. We hope these features could improve your user experience. So let us get started. ...

Java on Visual Studio Code Update – July 2022

July 17, 2022 Jul 17, 2022 07/17/22
Nick Zhu
Hi everyone, welcome to the July update of Visual Studio Code Java. We have brought exciting updates on Lombok support as well as a few other fundamental user experience improvements. Let's get started! Lombok Support Lombok is a popular Java library that makes your coding life easier, and we have been consistently hearing from developers ...

Java on Azure Tooling Update –July 2022

July 5, 2022 Jul 5, 2022 07/5/22
Jialuo Gan
Hi everyone, welcome back to the July update of Java on Azure Tooling. In this update, we will introduce the brand new getting started experience on the Azure toolkit for IntelliJ. In addition, we have added support for Managed Identity Authentication. Let's see what these new features are. Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ Improvements New ...

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.