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Java on Visual Studio Code October Update

Xiaokai He October 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2019 10/18/19

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 He September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19

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

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/...

Java on Visual Studio Code June Update

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

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 He June 14, 2019 Jun 14, 2019 06/14/19

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, ...

Java on Visual Studio Code April Update

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

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 He February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

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 ...

Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and More

Xiaokai He December 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 12/14/18

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-Thomas December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18

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 He November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18

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 ...

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