Programmatic Language Features - Visual Studio Code

Hovers show information about the symbol/object that's below the mouse cursor. This is usually the type of the symbol and a description. In the response to the initialize method, your language server needs to announce that it provides hovers.

January 2025 (version 1.97) - Visual Studio Code

Welcome to the January 2025 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you'll like, some of the key highlights include: Next Edit Suggestions (preview) - Copilot predicts the next edit you are likely to make. Reposition Command Palette - Drag the Command Palette and Quick Inputs to a new position.

Introducing GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)

Copilot agent mode can create apps from scratch, perform refactorings across multiple files, write and run tests, and migrate legacy code to modern frameworks. It can automatically generate documentation, integrate new libraries, or help answer questions about a complex codebase.

VS Code Remote Development

Visual Studio Code Remote Development allows you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment. You can: Develop on the same operating system you deploy to or use larger or more specialized hardware.

Node.js debugging in VS Code

To enable the feature, either use the Toggle Auto Attach command from the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)) or, if it's already activated, use the Auto Attach Status bar item. There are three modes for auto attach, which you can select in the resulting Quick Pick and via the debug.javascript.autoAttachFilter setting:

Debugging with LLDB-MI on macOS - Visual Studio Code

The debug adapter for the C/C++ extension utilizes the machine interface mode for both gdb and lldb. To use this interface in lldb, the extension utilizes lldb-mi. The lldb-mi executable was built from the GitHub lldb-mi repository and has a dependency on the LLDB.framework, which is part of Xcode.

Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined

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Optimizations in Syntax Highlighting - Visual Studio Code

Syntax Highlighting usually consists of two phases. Tokens are assigned to source code, and then they are targeted by a theme, assigned colors, and voilà, your source code is rendered with colors. It is the one feature that turns a text editor into a code editor.

Requirements for Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code hardware and platform (operating system) requirements.

Visual Studio Code FAQ

Our docs contain a Common questions section as needed for specific topics. We've captured items here that don't fit in the other topics. If you don't see an answer to your question here, check our previously reported issues on GitHub and our release notes.