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Java on Visual Studio Code October Update

Xiaokai HeOctober 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19

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 September Update

Xiaokai HeSeptember 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19

September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.

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/meth

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, Visua

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 Edit

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.

Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code

Mark Wilson-ThomasDecember 5, 2018Dec 5, 201812/5/18

At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference. IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive

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 t

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