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Easily Create IoT Edge custom modules with Visual Studio Code

December 12, 2017 Dec 12, 2017 12/12/17
ScriptingGuy1
At the recent Connect(); 2017 in November, we announced public preview of Azure IoT Edge. Now you can bring the intelligence of the Cloud right to the IoT Edge as well as easily create and manage business logic for your devices. The new Azure IoT Edge extension for Visual Studio Code along with the updated Azure IoT Toolkit extension will make...

Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code

December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17
ScriptingGuy1
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. Recognize JUnit4 tests Run test Debug test View test status and run summary Same as the Debugger for Java, this is ...

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...

Debugging PowerShell script in Visual Studio Code – Part 2

February 13, 2017 Feb 13, 2017 02/13/17
Doctor Scripto
Welcome to Part 2 of the series about how to debug PowerShell in Visual Studio Code. In Part 1, we looked at the debugging features of Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension installed.  Now we will examine the various ways that you can start to debug PowerShell script with Visual Studio Code. Single file debugging With the 1.9 ...