Download Visual Studio Code 1.45.0

Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor with support for IntelliSense, debugging, git and code snippets. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux and macOS. Support for common scripting and programming languages ​​is present and it can also be done via extensions to be expanded. Microsoft has released version 1.45. Below is an overview of the most important changes that we can find there:

April 2020 (version 1.45)

Welcome to the April 2020 release of Visual Studio Code. There are a number of updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Accessibility improvements – Focus commands to navigate the workbench, status bar accessibility.
• Switch editor tabs via mouse wheel – Quickly switch files in the editor using your mouse wheel.
• Faster syntax highlighting – Programming language colorization is up to 3 times faster.
• Custom semantic colors – Change semantic token colors through your user settings.
• GitHub authentication support – Automatic GitHub authentication for GitHub repositories.
• GitHub Issues integration – Inline hovers and suggestions for GitHub issues and users.
• Remote Development – Container configuration recommendations, WSL 2 support.
• JavaScript debugger preview – CPU profiling, improved Auto Attach to Node.js processes.
• New Docker Compose topic – Learn how to use Docker Compose to work with multiple containers.

If you’d like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.