Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool – supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio family.
At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a powerful, fast code editor great for day-to-day use. The Preview release of Code already has many of the features developers need in a code and text editor, including navigation, keyboard support with customizable bindings, syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto indentation, and snippets, with support for dozens of languages.
For serious coding, developers often need to work with code as more than just text. Visual Studio Code includes built-in support for always-on IntelliSense code completion, richer semantic code understanding and navigation, and code refactoring. In the Preview, Code includes enriched built-in support for ASP.NET 5 development with C#, and Node.js development with TypeScript and jаvascript, powered by the same underlying technologies that drive Visual Studio. Code includes great tooling for web technologies such as HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS, and JSON. Code also integrates with package managers and repositories, and builds and other common tasks to make everyday workflows faster. And Code understands Git, and delivers great Git workflows and source diffs integrated with the editor.
What’s New:
Version 1.70.0:
- Title bar customization – Hide/show menu bar, Command Center, or layout control.
- Fold selection – Create your own folded regions in the editor.
- Search multi-select – Select and then act on multiple search results.
- Tree view search and filtering – Find and filter in tree views such as the Find Explorer.
- Terminal improvements – Shell integration on by default, extended PowerShell keybindings.
- Command line option –merge – Use the 3-way merge editor as your default merge tool.
- Notebooks: Go to Most Recently Failed Cell – Jump directly to notebook errors.
- Python Get started experience – Quickly install and configure Python within VS Code.
- Sticky scroll preview – New scrolling UI shows current source code scope.
- Dev container CLI topic – Learn about the updated development container CLI.
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