Visual Studio Code August 2023
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Welcome to the August 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Accessibility improvements - Accessible View support for inline completions, updated keybindings.
- Built-in port forwarding - Forward local server ports from within VS Code.
- Sticky Scroll updates - Scrolls horizontally with editor, display last line in
Visual Studio Code July 2023
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Welcome to the July 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Accessibility improvements - Accessible View support for notifications, chat responses, and hovers.
- VS Code Profiles - Finer control with partial profiles and "Apply to all profiles" options.
- New diff editor features - Collapse unchanged regions
Shrinking VS Code with name mangling
July 20, 2023 by Matt Bierner, @mattbierner
We recently reduced the size of Visual Studio Code's shipped JavaScript by 20%. That works out to a little over 3.9 MB saved. Sure that's less than some of the individual gifs from our release notes, but that's still nothing to sniff at! Not only does this reduction mean less code you need to download and store on disk, it also improves startup time because less source code has to be
Visual Studio Code June 2023
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Welcome to the June 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Accessibility improvements - Accessible View for better screen reader support, Copilot audio cues.
- Better editor group and tab resizing - Set min tab size, avoid unnecessary editor group resizing.
- Skip subwords when expanding selection - Control whether
Visual Studio Code May 2023
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Welcome to the May 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Read-only mode - Mark specific files and folders in your workspace as read-only.
- 'Paste as' options - Choose how you'd like item links pasted into the editor.
- Automatic copy of external
VS Code and WebAssemblies
June 5, 2023 by Dirk Bäumer
VS Code for the Web ( https://vscode.dev ) has been available for some time now and it has always been our goal to support the full edit / compile / debug cycle in the browser. This is relatively easy for languages like JavaScript and TypeScript since browsers ship with a JavaScript execution engine. It is harder for other languages since we must be able to execute (and therefore debug) the code. For example, to run Python
Visual Studio Code April 2023
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Welcome to the April 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Accessibility improvements - Better screen reader support, new audio cues.
- New color themes - "Modern" light and dark color theme defaults.
- Profile templates - Built-in templates for Python, Java, Data Science,
Visual Studio Code Day 2023
April 13, 2023 by Burke Holland, @burkeholland
VS Code Day is a one-day "Virtually Live" event starting at 10:00 AM PST on April 26. Naming things is hard, but we feel like this title says it all – a full day of community, learning, and all things Visual Studio Code. Registration is now open, and you can grab your spot today: https://aka.ms/vscodeday .
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Visual Studio Code March 2023
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Welcome to the March 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include:
- Accessibility improvements - New keyboard shortcuts for hovers, notifications, and Sticky Scroll.
- Copy GitHub deep links - Create permalinks and HEAD links from within the editor.
- Notebook Format on Save - Automatically format notebooks cells on save
Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot AI
March 30, 2023 by Chris Dias, @chrisdias
AI did not write this blog post, but it will make your development experiences incredible.
There is a lot of buzz, excitement, and some concerns around Artificial Intelligence today. Advancements are happening almost daily, it's hard to keep up. But once you give it a try, you quickly realize what more than a million Copilot users see daily, that this technology does not disappoint, especially with Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI
