The next phase of the Go experience

June 9, 2020 by The VS Code Team, @code

From the beginning, we have worked with developer communities to build Visual Studio Code as a powerful, extensible editor. Five years into this journey, individuals and organizations in our community have helped us create an editor that is really for all developers, using any language.

For many of our 11 million users, VS Code is their primary code editor, as is the case for 41% of developers

Visual Studio Code at Build 2020

May 14, 2020 by Alessandro Segala, @ItalyPaleAle

The Microsoft Build 2020 conference is starting next Tuesday, May 19, and will be running for 48 continuous hours. For the first time, Build is a fully digital event, open to everyone for free.

Our team has been hard at work creating new experiences for all developers using Visual Studio Code. At Build, we'll demo new features we've been working

April 2020 (version 1.45)

Downloads: Windows: User System | Mac | Linux: snap deb rpm tarball

Welcome to the April 2020 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Accessibility improvements - Focus commands to navigate the workbench, status bar accessibility.
• Switch editor tabs via mouse wheel - Quickly switch files in the editor using your mouse wheel.
• Faster syntax highlighting -

Introducing GitHub Issues Integration

May 6, 2020 by Alex Ross, @alexr00

On the Visual Studio Code team, we use GitHub issues to track all of our work. From our detailed iteration plans to individual bugs, we track everything as GitHub issues. Given how important issues are to our team and other GitHub projects, we wanted to add GitHub issues integration to VS Code. This addition complemented the GitHub Pull Request work we announced over a year ago. Starting with VS Code version 1.4

March 2020 (version 1.44)

Update 1.44.1 : The update addresses this security issue .

Update 1.44.2 : The update addresses these issues .

Downloads: Windows: User System | Mac | Linux: snap deb rpm tarball

Welcome to the March 2020 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Accessibility improvements - Easier diff view navigation

February 2020 (version 1.43)

Update 1.43.1 : The update addresses these issues .

Update 1.43.2 : The update addresses these issues .

Downloads: Windows: User System | Mac | Linux: snap deb rpm tarball

Welcome to the February 2020 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Search Editors - Search and save your global

Using Docker in WSL 2

March 2, 2020 by Matt Hernandez, @fiveisprime

Last June, the Docker team announced that they will be investing in getting Docker running with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). All of this is made possible with the recent changes to the architecture of WSL to run within a lightweight virtual machine (VM), which we talked about in an earlier blog post about WSL 2 . Since this announcement, the Docker team has released a Technical Preview of Docker that includes support

Custom Data Format: Evolving HTML and CSS language features

February 24, 2020 by Pine Wu, @octref

The web evolves and so do its languages. New entities continue to land in HTML and CSS specifications. Custom Elements and Houdini allow users to extend HTML and CSS semantics. Many developers today use programming languages that embed HTML and CSS. Although HTML and CSS see increasingly flexible usage, editor support for new features often lags behind.

To modernize the HTML and CSS language support in Visual Studio Code,