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Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Shengyu Fu
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/...

Azure IoT Tools November Update: standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development and more!

November 28, 2019 Nov 28, 2019 11/28/19
Jun Han
Welcome to the November update of Azure IoT Tools! In this November release, you will see the new standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development, the support of Vcpkg for IoT Plug and Play development and more new features. Deploy Event Grid module on Azure IoT Edge Event Grid on IoT Edge brings the power and flexibility of Azure ...

Azure IoT Tools October Update: new experience of sending device-to-cloud messages and more!

October 30, 2019 Oct 30, 2019 10/30/19
Jun Han
Welcome to the October update of Azure IoT Tools! In this October release, you will see the totally new experience of sending device-to-cloud messages and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support in Visual Studio Code. New experience of sending device-to-cloud messages Z, a software engineer, developed an application about a ...

Azure IoT Tools August Update: IoT Plug and Play tooling public preview and more!

August 30, 2019 Aug 30, 2019 08/30/19
Jun Han
Welcome to the August update of Azure IoT Tools!  In this release of August, we have made several feature and improvements!  IoT Plug and Play tooling public preview  On August 22, 2019, we released a preview of IoT Plug and Play. IoT solution developers can start using Azure IoT Central or Azure IoT Hub to ...

Java on Visual Studio Code July Update

July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code! In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks. Refactoring Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method After performing extract to variable/constant/...

Java on Visual Studio Code June Update

June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019 06/24/19
Xiaokai He
Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code! Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks. In this update, we’d like to share a couple new features and enhancements delivered during last ...

Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java

June 14, 2019 Jun 14, 2019 06/14/19
Xiaokai He
It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and Microsoft, which later became one of the most popular extensions for Visual Studio Code with more than 2.7 million installations. Since then, ...

Azure IoT Tools help you connect to Azure IoT Hub in 1 minute in Visual Studio Code

June 12, 2019 Jun 12, 2019 06/12/19
Jun Han
When doing development for Azure IoT solutions, developers may want to test and debug their cloud solution with a real device. However, not every developer has a real device in their hand.  With the Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code, you can easily use Visual Studio Code as a device simulator to quickly interact with Azure IoT Hub.