Visual Studio Code 0.9.2
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Visual Studio Code 0.9.2 | 42.8 Mb
Visual Studio Code is a powerful IDE, dedicated to building Web applications and cloud programs. The tool is a lightweight and resembles the functionality of Visual Studio, however it features comprehensive revision and compiling utilities, packed in a modern looking interface.
Lightweight program, reliable programming tools
One of Visual Studio Code’s remarkable features is the Git control capabilities, that the program offers you. It facilitates the testing, building, packaging and even the deployment of various types of software.
You may create several tasks within Visual Studio Code, save them in the desired project and quickly configure it, by establishing the proper arguments. You can use the sample snippets, as well as generate your own code fragments, that you can later save.
It can export projects as text files and it works with multiple programming language, including C#, C++, Clojure, F#, HTML, JSON, Java, Lua, PHP, Perl, Python, SQL, Visual Basic, XML and others. Moreover, the program supports development in Node.js and ASP.NET.
Git support and debugging features
Visual Studio Code’s intuitive GUI allows you to open several instances at the same time and features a flexible working space, that can be split in two. This feature facilitates the code comparison, allowing you to visually identify issues.
The powerful searching engine allows you to find components, files, programs or any item that matches the name. The Git function allows you to work with a repository, via the dedicated local folder. You can access all the available Git features by opening the repository’s root.
The program also features a debugging function, designed to help you monitor variables and components. You may also control the Call Stack feature an define breakpoints.
Quickly compile the programs you loaded
Visual Studio Code supports the usage of snippets, a feature that can help you significantly reduce the time spent writing code. You may easily launch the loaded application or attach the selected code to the main script. The program is customizable, allowing you to modify several settings, from the layout of the workspace, to HTTP, Search or CSS configuration.
New in version 0.9.2 (October 27, 2015)
Persistent (update to update) location for Customizations:
Previously we did not have a location we respected across updates. It's true that we did have a location for user settings but as we get closer to our final update story we added a new location. In the future, we will (gracefully) move all user settings here. The new location is .vscode/extensions under your user directory. As this location is under your user directory, the content is persisted across VS Code updates. This is just the start and we plan to use this location more in future updates.
Yo Code - Streamlined Customizations for VS Code:
We re-purposed the Yeoman generator we used for the VS Code Node.js sample generator-code and we are now using this to make creating common customizations easier.
Customization - Adding Language Colorization & Bracket Matching:
Using the 'code' Yeoman generator you can add TextMate language specification files (.tmLanguage) to your VS Code installation to get syntax highlighting and bracket matching
A good place to look for existing TextMate .tmLanguage files is on GitHub. Search for a TextMate bundle for the language you are interested in and then navigate to the Syntaxes folder. The 'code' Yeoman generator can handle either .tmLanguage or .plist files. When prompted for the URL or file location, pass the raw path to the .tmLanguage file.
The generator will prompt you for other information such a unique name (this should be unique to avoid clashing with other customizations) and the language name, aliases and file extensions.
When the generator is finished, copy the complete output folder to a new folder under .vscode/extensions. When you restart VS Code, your new language will be visible in the language specifier dropdown and you'll get full colorization and bracket/tag matching for files matching the language's file extension.
Customization - Adding Themes:
You can also add new TextMate theme files (.tmTheme) to your VS Code installation.
ColorSublime has hundreds of existing TextMate themes to choose from. Pick a theme you like and copy the Download link to use in the Yeoman generator. The 'code' generator will prompt you for the URL or file location of the .tmTheme file, the theme name as well as other information for the theme.
Copy the generated theme folder to a new folder under .vscode/extensions and restart VS Code.
Open the Color Theme picker theme with File | Preferences | Color Theme and you can see your theme in the dropdown. Arrow up and down to see a live preview of your theme. While building this, the VS Code team contributed a Pull Request to node-oniguruma that results in a nice performance improvement when colorizing/tokenizing. Both the Atom and VS Code IDEs profit from this improvement.
Debugging - Performance:
We improved stepping performance by loading the scopes and variables of stack frames lazily. This improvement is based on a protocol change that affects all debug adapters.
Debugging - Pre-Launch Task:
In a project's launch configurations (launch.json), you can now use the preLaunchTask attribute to specify a task to run before a debug session starts.
For example, with this option you could make sure that your project is built before it is launched in the debugger. If the task results in errors, an error message warns you and you can decide to either fix the errors or continue launching the debugger.
Debugging - Debug Console:
We have made many improvements to the Debug Console:
Text selection is now supported
Better colors for improved visibility
Richer context menus
Expansion of elements is preserved between sessions
Languages - C#:
The status of the OmniSharp server is now using a new language status indicator in the lower right corner. This makes it much easier to see the context OmniSharp is running under and any issues.
Languages - TypeScript:
We now ship with TypeScript 1.6.2. You can learn more about the latest release of TypeScript at Announcing TypeScript 1.6.
We simplified defining a task to run the TypeScript compiler in watch mode.
Languages - Markdown Preview:
Markdown preview was improved so that embedded code stands out more clearly and the overall font sizes and spacing were optimized. In addition there is a new action to quickly open the Markdown preview to the side (Markdown: Open Preview to the Side).
Runtimes - Unity:
We've added colorization for Unity shader files.
Files - New Settings:
We added two new configuration options to control how files open and folders reopen between sessions.
The window.openInNewWindow setting controls if files should open in a new window instead of reusing an existing VS Code instance. By default, VS Code will open a new window, e.g. when you double-click on a file outside VS Code or open a file from the command line. Set this to false to reuse the last active instance of VS Code and open files in there.
The window.reopenFolders setting tells VS Code how to restore the opened windows of your previous session. By default, VS Code will reopen the last opened folder you worked on (setting: one). Change this setting to none to never reopen any folders and always start with an empty VS Code instance. Change it to all to restore all folders you worked on. This will reopen all the windows with folders of your previous session.
Notable Bug Fixes:
18998: newly added files not honored by tsconfig.json
18692: Changes to tsconfig.json not updated immediately
19239: Detaching from Unity Results in a Unity Crash
JSON schemas support external references.
The CSS tooling now supports CSS3 identifier escaping.
Node.js Debugger: In 0.9.0, we focused on fixing the problems that resulted from the introduction of a new implementation of the Node.js debugger in VS Code 0.8.0. You should no longer see empty CALL STACK, VARIABLES and WATCH views.
OS: Windows 8 / 8 64-bit / 10 / 10 64-bit