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  • Basic editing - Visual Studio Code

    Search across files VS Code allows you to quickly search over all files in the currently opened folder. Press ⇧⌘F (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+F) and enter your search term. Search results are grouped into files containing the search term, with an indication of the hits in each file and its location.

  • September 2016 (version 1.6) - Visual Studio Code

    Search term history - Easily reuse past search terms in the Search box. Launch script support - It's now possible to launch an NPM script before debugging. Workspace recommendations - Provide extension recommendations for other members of your team to use. API for Settings - It's now possible to programmatically change settings.

  • December 2015 (0.10.6) - Visual Studio Code

    Once enabled, the search term will match on the full path of the file by default, without having to include path separators in the query. In addition, a search term will match in a more fuzzy way on the path compared to the default. For example, a search for fb will match a file foobar because the filename contains f and b.

  • Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code

    Check out MongoDB with their extension that can write impressively complex queries, use fuzzy search and a lot more... Try this: Build your own extension for GitHub Copilot using GitHub Copilot! We've created some new tutorials that show you how to build a code tutor chat participant or generate AI-powered code annotations. A vision for the future

  • Visual Studio Code

    Semantic search enables you to find results that are semantically relevant to your search query, even if they don't match the text exactly. This is particularly useful when you're looking for code snippets or documentation that relate to a concept rather than a specific term, or when you don't know the exact terms to search for. !

  • July 2022 (version 1.70) - Visual Studio Code

    Fold selection - Create your own folded regions in the editor. Search multi-select - Select and then act on multiple search results. Tree view search and filtering - Find and filter in tree views such as the Find Explorer. Terminal improvements - Shell integration on by default, extended PowerShell keybindings.

  • How Copilot understands your workspace - Visual Studio Code

    Understand how Copilot agents search workspace code, gather context, and work within indexing and exclusion limits.

  • Configure VS Code for Microsoft C++

    In your new helloworld.cpp file, hover over vector or string to see type information. After the declaration of the msg variable, start typing msg. as you would when calling a member function. You should immediately see a completion list that shows all the member functions, and a window that shows the type information for the msg object:

  • Built-in Commands | Visual Studio Code Extension API

    Open new Search Editor args - vscode.openFolder - Open a folder or workspace in the current window or new window depending on the newWindow argument. Note that opening in the same window will shutdown the current extension host process and start a new one on the given folder/workspace unless the newWindow parameter is set to true.

  • Visual Studio Code 1.118

    Plain text search only matches the literal words you typed, so it often misses the relevant code when your codebase uses different terminology. Semantic indexing lets agents search by meaning, surfacing files that use related terms like login, signIn, verifyCredentials, or OAuth token exchange, even if the word "authentication" never appears in ...

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