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Java on Visual Studio Code Update – May 2020

June 1, 2020 Jun 1, 2020 06/1/20
Yaojin Yang
Welcome back to the May update of Java on Visual Studio Code. Your satisfaction continuously motivates us delivering the best product for you. Therefore, whatever it is a new feature or an enhancement, we hope you like it. In this update, we will show enhancements on Java side that make the product more friendly and also answer a frequently...

Java on Visual Studio Code October Update

October 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2019 10/18/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.

Java on Visual Studio Code July Update

July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19
Xiaokai He
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

June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019 06/24/19
Xiaokai He
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 ...

Java on Visual Studio Code April Update

May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 05/1/19
Xiaokai He
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

February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
Xiaokai He
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 Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates Performance improvements Standalone file supports Multiple source folders support Easy launch for multi-main-class projects ...