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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 after After performing refactoring, more often than not, we would like to assign the result with...

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 ...

Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools

June 8, 2018 Jun 8, 2018 06/8/18
Lisa Guthrie
Kubernetes is an open source system that is quickly emerging as the preferred container orchestration system for applications of all shapes and sizes, simplifying the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers. It runs in a variety of environments, including on premises as well as in cloud providers, such as Microsoft’s ...

Share UI Code in any iOS and Android App with .NET Embedding

December 11, 2017 Dec 11, 2017 12/11/17
James Montemagno
One of the most exciting announcements during this year’s Connect(); event was the ability to embed .NET libraries into existing iOS (Objective-C/Swift) and Android (Java) applications with .NET Embedding. This is great because you can start to share code between your iOS and Android applications, and you can also share the user interface ...

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of ...