Microsoft Released “Visual Studio Code 1.46”

June 10, Microsoft announced the latest release of the open-source code editor “Visual Studio Code 1.46 (May 2020)”. It introduces new features like pinned editor tabs and improved GitHub integration.

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open-source code editor developed by Microsoft. It is built-in with Git-base source code management feature, auto code completion feature IntelliSense, and debugging feature. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. For Insider users, it offers Windows ARM64, which works with Microsoft Surface ProX.

As VS studio is updated monthly, 1.46 is the successor of 1.45, which was released in May. This release introduces improvements on operability, for example, tabs can be pinned either from the context menu or by using the new command workbench.action.pinEditor. Also, now there are multiple options for configuring how Search Editors are created.

With improved automatic debug configurations, it allows extension authors to analyze the current project and automatically offer debug configurations. These debug configurations don’t show up in the “launch.json” configuration file because they are created dynamically. It is possible to show all automatic debug configurations from the Run and Debug start view.

For CommonJS modules, auto imports will now use ‘require’ instead of ‘import’. Also, refactorings for JavaScript and TypeScript now try to preserve the original refactoring of the refactored source code.

A GitHub repository can be added as a remote repository. It is now possible to generate .gitignore file when publishing a workspace to GitHub. It also runs GitHub issue queries and displays results in a custom Notebook.

As Microsoft announced that Go language extension would be moved to Google’s Go project and going forward, will be maintained on Go project. Although VS Code possesses various extensions, Go extension is popular with 41% of the VS Code developers using it.

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