Microsoft has unveiled Visible Studio Code 1.88, also called the March 2024 launch of the corporate’s widespread code editor. The replace brings capabilities corresponding to a check protection API, customized editor labels, and locked scrolling.
Launched on April 4, Visible Studio Code 1.88 may be downloaded for Home windows, Linux, or Mac from the undertaking web site.
On this launch, Microsoft has finalized its Take a look at Protection API, bringing native protection assist to VS Code. If a developer’s testing system helps it, protection may be accessed utilizing the brand new Run With Protection button. Utilizing check protection requires that your VS Code extension implements the brand new API.
Customized editor labels, in the meantime, permit builders to customise the show label for editor tabs and the Open editors view. This performance can be utilized to tell apart between editors for information with the identical identify, Microsoft mentioned. And with locked scrolling, builders can synchronize scrolling throughout seen editors by utilizing the View: Toggle Locked Scrolling Throughout Editors command. When builders scroll in a single editor, all the opposite editors scroll by the identical quantity, preserving every little thing aligned.
Additionally in Visible Studio 1.88:
- The minimap now acknowledges and renders sections outlined by folding markers, corresponding to
//#regioncodein TypeScript. This lets customers shortly scan and navigate throughout giant information. - In Fast Search, file identify separators have been made sticky to make it clearer which file a search result’s related to. This may be helpful when builders have many occurrences of a search time period in a file.
- The Exercise Bar may be moved to the underside of the Aspect Bar in addition to the highest. When positioned on the high, the Exercise Bar now matches higher with the remainder of the interface.
- GitHub Copilot inline chat now begins as a floating management, making it extra light-weight, then expands to take up more room after the primary request.
- Accessibility sign sounds have been added for voice recording.
- To extra simply run associated cells in a pocket book, customers can now run cells grouped collectively by a markdown part header with the Run Cells in Part motion.
Visible Studio Code 1.88 follows the late-February launch of Visible Studio Code 1.87, which launched voice dictation.
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