The first version of Visual Studio Code 1.0 - the path from a simple editor to a powerful tool

Great news completes the work week - version of Visual Studio Code 1.0 is released!



We are happy to share this event with the developers and remember that since the first public release of the preview Visual Studio Code has been almost a year, and during this time the tool has been installed and tested by 2 million developers.

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Beginning as an experiment, during this time the code editor has turned into a new cross-platform development tool, which has perfectly complemented the entire history of the platform for creating software using Visual Studio. Visual Studio Code now provides advanced editing, navigation, debugging and native Git support. Download and install Visual Studio Code 1.0 for Windows, Linux and OS X.



The release of Visual Studio Code 1.0 is not just a set of new features of the editor, which added to the previous beta versions, it is the result of the team’s hard work with the community, working together on bugs, improving performance, etc. After all, initially, VS Code was created as a tool for developers of web applications focused on JavaScript and TypeSript.



However, due to the fact that VS Code is an open source project and an announcement of the support of the extension tool, during this time the community actively participated in the development of the tool on github , and also developed more than 1000 extensions that allowed to add support for almost any language and runtimes from Go and Python to React Native and C ++.



The main innovations of this release are:

• Added 9 localized interface languages ​​(including Russian).
• Improved support for JavaScript with the new static analysis system Salsa .
• Simplified jsconfig.json and tasks.json files creation.
• Support for adding new file extensions for available languages.
• Implemented support for selecting text column in the editor.

Details of the release on the link .



The VS Code team thanks all the participants who have contributed to the development of the project - more than 300 pull requests , as well as all those who sent feedback, participated in discussions on the forum and followed the tool updates - you are part of the team!



News in the official blog of Visual Studio Code .

useful links

• Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Code: free offers for developers
• Additional and free tools and services in Visual Studio Dev Essentials
• Laboratory work on the development, testing and management of the life cycle of software for Visual Studio 2015