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Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation
Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation
Xiaokai HeJanuary 8, 2018Jan 8, 201801/8/18
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
Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code
Xiaokai HeDecember 1, 2017Dec 1, 201712/1/17
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
Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code
Xiaokai HeNovember 10, 2017Nov 10, 201711/10/17
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
Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code
Xiaokai HeOctober 23, 2017Oct 23, 201710/23/17
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...