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Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
ScriptingGuy1
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language servers to provide a rich editing experience for languages that initially had no native language support in Visual Studio. With these extensions, ...

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code

November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17
ScriptingGuy1
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...

Visual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace

November 9, 2017 Nov 9, 2017 11/9/17
ScriptingGuy1
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual Studio IDE extensions. Henceforth, extension publishing and management will also be in Marketplace. In this process, all extensions in Gallery will...