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Java on Visual Studio Code July Update

Xiaokai HeJuly 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19

Welcome 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/...

Java on Visual Studio Code June Update

Xiaokai HeJune 24, 2019Jun 24, 201906/24/19

Welcome 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. In this update, we’d like to share a couple new features and enhancements delivered during last ...

Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java

Xiaokai HeJune 14, 2019Jun 14, 201906/14/19

It’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. Since then, ...

Java on Visual Studio Code April Update

Xiaokai HeMay 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19

Welcome 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. See below for more details! Java 12 ...

Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai HeFebruary 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19

Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We'd like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Managing your Maven Dependencies Easily ...

Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and More

Xiaokai HeDecember 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18

We'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.

AI-assisted coding comes to Java with Visual Studio IntelliCode

Xiaokai HeNovember 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18

Visual 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 ...

AI-assisted Coding Comes to Java in Visual Studio IntelliCode

Xiaokai HeNovember 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18

Visual 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.

Supporting Jetty for Java in Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai HeMay 1, 2018May 1, 201805/1/18

Eclipse Jetty is a popular web server and servlet container in Java community. We’ve released a new Jetty extension for Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to run and deploy WAR packages (Web Application aRchive), operate your Jetty servers, and interact with your application from within the editor. Today this extension includes the ...

Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai HeMarch 19, 2018Mar 19, 201803/19/18

After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve added initial support for JUnit 5, including running, debugging test cases as well as test report. Please give us a try and let us know your ...