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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – February 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.
Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture
Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices. Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on scaling properly, security, deployment, and cost requirements. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they...
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – January 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.
What’s New in Azure Spring Cloud after GA
Microsoft and VMware co-announced Azure Spring Cloud General Availability (GA). You will learn the newest features and enhancements to monitor and secure your apps since GA and what's upcoming. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping these features, keep the feedback coming.
Effortlessly monitor applications and dependencies in Azure Spring Cloud!
We are excited to announce that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is now fully integrated into Azure Spring Cloud, powered by Application Insights.
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – December 2020
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.
New Java learning path on Microsoft Learn
MS Learn is Microsoft's flagship learning platform, delivering free online tutorials for everyone to study, understand and deliver great technical projects to the cloud. Today, we deliver a Java learning path on MS Learn, so all Java developers can benefit from the power of Azure. Java at Microsoft is huge It's been a long journey for Java at Microsoft. Java is currently used in many products and services by Microsoft: from Minecraft, to LinkedIn and Yammer, and Azure itself, where we have several Java specific offers like Azure Spring Cloud (for Spring developers) and JBoss EAP on App Service (for Jakarta E...
Java on Visual Studio Code Update – November 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
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.