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More developer goodness in the February update of
@code
🎉
🎤 Use your voice to write code (in your language!)
🏃 Code faster with multi-cursor suggestions
📝 Renaming gets easier (because it's AI powered)
Release notes:
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We know a lot of you prefer to git from the terminal instead of the built-in source control view.
And we don't want you to feel left out of all this AI goodness.
So we made this for you...
Introducing Remote Development for
@code
🚀💻🛰️
A new set of extensions that enable you to open any folder in a container, on a remote machine, or in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and take advantage of VS Code's full feature set.
#remote
👉
The January release is here! No need to reload after installing extensions, and much much more!
Check for updates or download now:
See what's new:
Happy Coding!
Introducing
#VSLiveShare
- Real-time collaborative development for
@code
and
@visualstudio
. Tools you love, Share Full Context, Collaborative Editing, Collaborative Debugging. Find out more
Announcing Visual Studio Online! Check out the newest member of the
#VisualStudio
family bringing cloud-powered development environments: for your daily work, a side project, or reviewing a PR – from anywhere. 🌴⛰🌵
Did you know
@Microsoft
has a free 26-lesson curriculum all about
#Python
machine learning? 🐍 Learn about regression, classification, clustering, reinforcement and more with VS Code! 📗
👉
To our Mac users 🍎 We've been working on bringing VS Code to devices powered by
@Apple
Silicon, and we're targeting a release for the Insiders channel by the end of November 🔖
Experimental Mac/ARM64 builds 🧪
Track progress 👉
🎉 VS Code for Mac with
@Apple
Silicon is now available in the Insiders channel! 🍎 Look for the Mac/ARM64 build for native M1 processor support
🔗 Download here:
📣 We're so excited to announce VS Code Day, the very first event dedicated to VS Code users and developers! 🥳🎉
Join our team for a free live event on Jan 27 @ 8am PT (4pm GMT), re-streamed at 8pm PT, with live Q&A! 🗓
More info & Save The Date 👉
Boom. 💥 As of today, you can use the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as your full-time development environment right from
@code
. Run and debug in your Linux-based environment on Windows in VS Code using the Remote - WSL extension. 🖥️
#remote
#wsl
👉
We're thinking about refreshing the "Debug" icon in the Activity Bar, to better indicate that you can run and debug your code from there. You can see this icon in the latest Insiders release (you can download Insiders: )
Let us know what you think!
"This extension adds a quick command to search
@StackOverflow
without leaving
@Code
.
You can find the command by search, or by using the hotkeys cmd+h on Mac or ctrl+h on
@Windows
."
who built this & how can I buy you coffee
👩💻
⚙️
🎉Boom! Here it is, the November iteration!! 🔥🔥
Check out the cool new features (mirror cursors in HTML is my favorite 😍)!
Read the release notes: and update now!
📢 The October release is here 🙌🏽
This iteration we focused on triaging and fixing over 4500 GitHub issues. 🐛 🧹
In this release, check out the Activity Bar highlight indicator, untracked changes setting, silent Zen mode, and more!
See whats new:
🎉 The
@code
September Release is here 🙌
💪Linux ARMv7, ARM64 builds (VS Code on your Raspberry Pi)
📈Get real time performance insights when debugging JavaScript
📌Configure how pinned tabs appear
And more! Check out full details in the release notes:
It's here! The May iteration is out. VS Code has an updated icon, Remote Development extensions are now available in Stable, and more! See the Release notes and check for updates!
We can't contain our excitement. As of today, you can use a Docker container as your full-time development environment 🤯 🐳 📦
Using the Remote - Containers extension, you can open any folder inside (or mounted into) a container.
#remote
#containers
👉
Naming things is hard. Latest
@code
Insiders and
@github
Copilot Chat pre-release will now suggest you names when you're trying to rename a symbol! Just trigger a rename (default shortcut F2) and you see a list of suggested names from Copilot!
📢 The April release of
@code
is out!
🆕 GitHub authentication and GitHub issues integration, semantic theming customizations, improved accessibility in status bar & new features in the JavaScript debugger! 🔥
Check out the new release: and update today!
In case you missed it... Today we introduced
#VSLiveShare
at
#MSFTConnect
👏Real-time collaborative development for
@code
and
@visualstudio
👏
- Share Full Context,
- Collaborative Editing,
- Collaborative Debugging 🔥
Find out more and watch the video
The November update is here! 👉 Better multiline search, Find All References view, Go to Declaration and much more! 🔥🎉🎄
Check for updates or download now:
See what's new:
Why is AI/Copilot so good at writing unit tests?
And in this case, going from an inline request on a single method to creating an entirely new file which includes base test cases as well.
VS code users, great news! A MongoDB
@code
plug-in is now available. Get started in three easy steps:
- Install the extension from the marketplace
- Get a free Atlas cluster
- Connect to it & start building a playground
Learn more here:
@mmarcon
Today, we're changing how you code across the wire with our new Remote - SSH extension. Everything you love about Visual Studio Code with all the benefits of SSH, uncompromised. 👊
#remote
#ssh
👉
🎉 The June update of
@code
is live! 🎇
💪 Windows ARM platform builds
🐛 New JavaScript debugger
⚙️ Edit complex settings
... and more!!
Click on the gear, check for updates and read the release notes:
We just shipped one of the all-time most requested VS
@Code
feature - Profiles: Unique
@Code
configurations for different projects and workspaces 🎉
We're excited to be able to get you this functionality. Let us know what you think about it!
The January release of
@code
is out! 🎉🎉
🆕 Preview rename changes, move panels around the editor, Debug Console improvements, a simplified Debug view, and more! 🔥🔥
Read the release notes: and update now!
The February release of
@code
is now live! 🎉🎉
🔥Search Editors make it to stable, Remote Windows and macOS server support, easier column selection, and more 🔥!
Check out the Release Notes: and update now!
Tired of tediously writing commit messages? Let Copilot Chat write them for you!
Using the new "sparkle" action in the Source Control input box, Copilot will generate a descriptive commit message based on your pending changes ✨
More new features 👀
VS Code 1.50 is coming out next week… so it's time for another release party! 🥳
Join the
@Code
team on Oct 13 at 15:00 UTC for a demo of what's new in this release and a live Q&A with you! 💬
Save the date 📅
The February
@code
release is here! Check out what's new 🎉
🍎 Apple Silicon builds now stable
🖋️ New themeable icons
💻 Persistent terminal processes
... and more!
Release notes:
Download:
The March release of
@code
is out! 😃 🙌
🆕 New Timeline view, extension pack display, smoother file navigation, Remote Containers features, and more!
Check out the all new features: and update now!
The January release is here! No need to reload after installing extensions, and much much more!
Check for updates or download now:
See what's new:
Happy Coding!
🎉The July iteration is here! We refreshed🔄all the icons in
@code
, improved search UX in the explorer and terminal, and more!
Check for updates and see what's new:
🎉 The June VS Code release is here! Check out what’s new:
🖥 Open a terminal in the editor area
🧮 Add math formulas to Markdown
🔖 “Open in VS Code” badge for
@GitHub
repos
…and more!
Release notes:
Download:
Gist + notepad + VS Code = GistPad 📘
View and edit your
@GitHub
Gist directly in VS Code, as if they were local files, by
@LostInTangent
✏️
Get the extension 👉