Visual Studio Code is een opensourcecode-editor met ondersteuning voor IntelliSense, debugging, Git en code snippets. Ondersteuning voor de gangbare script- en programmeertalen is aanwezig, en het kan daarnaast via extensies uitgebreid worden. Microsoft heeft versie 1.24 uitgebracht. De bijbehorende aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit:
May 2018 (version 1.24)
Welcome to the May 2018 release of Visual Studio Code. You will notice several new features available for Preview in this milestone. Give them a try and let us know what you think. Some of the key highlights include:You can also check out this 1.24 release highlights video from Cloud Developer Advocate Brian Clark.
- Unused variable detection - Unused variables are greyed-out in your JavaScript/TypeScript files.
- Move to new file refactoring - Easily pull classes and functions into their own files.
- Update imports on move/rename - Automatically update import paths in JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Duplicate workspace in new window - Great for expanding over multi-mon setups.
- IntelliSense for predefined variables - Variable suggestions in debug and task configuration files.
- Preview: Outline view - Symbol tree outline and navigation for your projects.
- Preview: Settings Editor - New GUI to discover and modify VS Code settings.
- Preview: Debug toolbar location - Float, dock or hide the debug toolbar.
- Preview: Grid editor layout - Custom vertical/horizontal layout, coming soon to Insiders.
- Working with Docker and MongoDB - Learn about Docker and MongoDB integration in VS Code.
The release notes are arranged in the following sections related to VS Code focus areas. Here are some further updates:
- Editor - Zoom font size independent of your workbench, syntax highlighting for deleted lines.
- Integrated Terminal - Smart fallback to DOM renderer, italic and line spacing support.
- Debugging - Switch to debug view on break, Go to Next/Previous Breakpoint.
- Languages - JavaScript/TypeScript getter/setter refactoring, SCSS @-keyword completions.
- Extension Authoring - Expanded custom views API, Task API to stable, new theme colors.