Hot Code Replacement for Java comes to Visual Studio Code

February 2, 2018 Feb 2, 2018 02/2/18
Xiaokai He
Hot code replacement (HCR), which doesn't require a restart, is a fast debugging technique in which the Java debugger transmits new class files over the debugging channel to another JVM. With this new feature in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), you can start a debugging session and change a Java file in your development environment, and the ...

New Visual Studio Code Extensions for Java Developers: Maven, Tomcat, and Checkstyle

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18
Xiaokai He
Alongside the release of Debugger for Java and Java Test Runner this week, we're welcoming a few new members to our Visual Studio Code Java Extension family. We think you'll find them helpful for your Java development when you’re dealing with maven, Tomcat or making sure your Java code to follow the standard styles. Maven Project Explorer ...
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Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation

January 8, 2018 Jan 8, 2018 01/8/18
Xiaokai He
Happy new year! We’d like to thank you all for using Visual Studio Code for your Java development as well as for sharing your feedback. Within just three months, we’ve published 5 releases for our Debugger for Java extension for Visual Studio Code and received 400K+ downloads. With our new 0.5.0 release, we’re adding two new exciting ...

Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code

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Xiaokai He
Today, we’re pleased to release a new extension to our Visual Studio Code Java extension family - Test Runner/Debugger for Java. It’s a lightweight test runner/debugger with below features we hope you will like. Same as the Debugger for Java, this is also an open source project. Please check out the github page https://...

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
Xiaokai He
In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the Java community. Thank you all for trying our tools and providing feedback, all of which is motivating us to make VS Code a better tool for Java...

Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code

October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17
Xiaokai He
Since we first released our Java Debugger extension for Visual Studio Code on September 28, it quickly became the most trending extension of the month. And of course, lots of feedback and suggestions were submitted from our active developer community. You shared, we listened. In this quick follow up release, we’re open sourcing both our Java...