Download Visual Studio Code 1.17.2

Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor with support for IntelliSense, debugging, git and code snippets. Support for common scripting and programming languages ​​is presentand it can also be done via extensions to be expanded. Microsoft has released version 1.17.2. The corresponding list of customizations looks like this:

Version 1.17.2 – September Recovery #2 2017

• windows mutex is missing from our windows builds
• VSCode window not given focus when invoking with -r from command line
• Adding “base” to files.exclude breaks VS Code
• terminal not painting until resize
• Attempting to use window.onDidChangeWindowState causes proposed api error
• Differences in Terminal and Editor font rendering on Windows

Version 1.17.1 – September Recovery 2017

• Letter shapes are distorted in integrated terminal (canvas renderer)
• Git: sometimes diff stays empty when clicked
• Default Fedora font has rendering issues
• Force DejaVu Sans Mono font in terminal on Fedora
• Comment hotkeys throws the cursor before the comment
• We should be more careful with the git init suggestion
• VSCode 1.17 upgrade: “The package is of bad quality”
• File copy in UNC folders doesn’t work anymore
• 1.17.0 Integrated Terminal Chinese Problem
• Unicode symbols inside integrated terminal
• Inconsistent link activation in integrated terminal output bug candidate integrated-terminal verified

Version 1.17.0 – September 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of significant updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• macOS Touch Bar support – Touch Bar actions for navigation and debugging.
• Source code folding improvements – Collapse region markers and off-side language blocks.
• Integrated Terminal performance – Terminal rendering is up to 45 times faster.
• Automatic import suggestions – See module and path import suggestions while coding.
• Debugging shows source location – Easily navigate from the Debug Console to source code.
• Better colorization of regex and format strings – Helps with parsing and identifying errors.
• Improved multiple SCM support – New UI to view changes in multiple source control repositories.
• New online documentation – Java language, ‘Tips and Tricks’, and Debugging Recipes topics.
• Preview: Multi-root workspaces – No reload on workspace updates, combined view of available tasks.
• Multi-root guide for extension authors – To help extenders be ready for multi-root workspaces.

You can also check out this 1.17 release highlights video from Cloud Developer Advocate Brian Clark.

The release notes are arranged in the following sections related to VS Code focus areas. Here are some further updates:

• workbench – Better macOS native tabs support, new editor label formats.
• Editor – Snippet transforms, more Emmet preferences, optimized history navigation.
• Languages – TypeScript 2.5.3, Extract Method triggers rename, language support in Markdown code blocks.
• Extension Authoring – macOS Touch Bar support, styled completions and signature help text.