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The Azure Terraform Visual Studio Code extension enables you to work with Terraform from the editor. With this extension, you can author, test, and run Terraform configurations. The extension also supports resource graph visualization.

In this article, you learn how to:

  • Automate the provisioning of Azure services using Terraform
  • install and use the Terraform Visual Studio Code extension for Azure services.
  • Use Visual Studio Code to write, plan, and execute Terraform plans.

Prerequisites

  • Azure subscription: If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
  • Terraform: Install and configure Terraform.
  • Visual Studio Code: Install the version of Visual Studio Code that is appropriate for your environment.

Prepare your dev environment

Install Git

To complete the exercises in the article, you need to install Git.

Install HashiCorp Terraform

Follow the instructions on the HashiCorp Install Terraform webpage, which covers:

Studio
  • Downloading Terraform
  • Installing Terraform
  • Verifying Terraform is correctly installed

Tip

Be sure to follow the instructions regarding setting your PATH system variable.

Install Node.js

To use Terraform in the Cloud Shell, you need to install Node.js 6.0+.

Note

To verify if Node.js is installed, open a terminal window and enter node -v.

Install GraphViz

To use the Terraform visualize function, you need to install GraphViz.

Note

To verify if GraphViz is installed, open a terminal window and enter dot -V.

Install the Azure Terraform Visual Studio Code extension

  1. Launch Visual Studio Code.

  2. Select Extensions.

  3. Use the Search Extensions in Marketplace text box to search for the Azure Terraform extension:

  4. Select Install.

    Note

    When you select Install for the Azure Terraform extension, Visual Studio Code will automatically install the Azure Account extension. Azure Account is a dependency file for the Azure Terraform extension, which it uses to perform Azure subscription authentications and Azure-related code extensions.

Verify the Terraform extension is installed in Visual Studio Code

  1. Select Extensions.

  2. Enter @installed in the search text box.

The Azure Terraform extension will appear in the list of installed extensions.

You can now run all supported Terraform commands in your Cloud Shell environment from within Visual Studio Code.

Exercise 1: Basic Terraform commands walk-through

In this exercise, you create and execute a basic Terraform configuration file that provisions a new Azure resource group.

Prepare a test plan file

  1. In Visual Studio Code, select File > New File from the menu bar.

  2. In your browser, navigate to the Terraform azurerm_resource_group page and copy the code in the Example Usage code block:

  3. Paste the copied code into the new file you created in Visual Studio Code.

    Note

    You may change the name value of the resource group, but it must be unique to your Azure subscription.

  4. From the menu bar, select File > Save As.

  5. In the Save As dialog, navigate to a location of your choice and then select New folder. (Change the name of the new folder to something more descriptive than New folder.)

    Note

    In this example, the folder is named TERRAFORM-TEST-PLAN.

  6. Make sure your new folder is highlighted (selected) and then select Open.

  7. In the Save As dialog, change the default name of the file to main.tf.

  8. Select Save.

  9. In the menu bar, select File > Open Folder. Navigate to and select the new folder you created.

Run Terraform init command

  1. Launch Visual Studio Code.

  2. From the Visual Studio Code menu bar, select File > Open Folder... and locate and select your main.tf file.

  3. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette... > Azure Terraform: Init.

  4. When the confirmation appears, select OK.

  5. The first time you launch Cloud Shell from a new folder, you're prompted to create a web application. Select Open.

  6. The Welcome to Azure Cloud Shell page opens. Select Bash or PowerShell.

  7. If you have not already set up an Azure storage account, the following screen appears. Select Create storage.

  8. Azure Cloud Shell launches in the shell you previously selected and displays information for the cloud drive it just created for you.

  9. You may now exit the Cloud Shell

  10. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: init.

Visualize the plan

Visual

Earlier in this article, you installed GraphViz. Terraform can use GraphViz to generate a visual representation of either a configuration or execution plan. The Azure Terraform Visual Studio Code extension implements this feature via the visualize command.

  • From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: Visualize.

Run Terraform plan command

The Terraform plan command is used to check whether the execution plan for a set of changes will do what you intended.

Note

Terraform plan does not make any changes to your real Azure resources. To actually make the changes contained in your plan, we use the Terraform apply command.

  • From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: plan.

Run Terraform apply command

After being satisfied with the results of Terraform plan, you can run the apply command.

  1. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: apply.

  2. Enter yes.

Verify your Terraform plan was executed

To see if your new Azure resource group was successfully created:

  1. Open the Azure portal.

  2. Select Resource groups in the left navigation pane.

Your new resource group should be listed in the NAME column.

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Note

You may leave your Azure Portal window open for now; we will be using it in the next step.

Run Terraform destroy command

  1. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: destroy.

  2. Enter yes.

Verify your resource group was destroyed

To confirm that Terraform successfully destroyed your new resource group:

  1. Select Refresh on the Azure portal Resource groups page.

  2. Your resource group will no longer be listed.

Exercise 2: Terraform compute module

In this exercise, you learn how to load the Terraform compute module into the Visual Studio Code environment.

Clone the terraform-azurerm-compute module

  1. Use this link to access the Terraform Azure Rm Compute module on GitHub.

  2. Select Clone or download.

    Note

    In this example, our folder was named terraform-azurerm-compute.

Open the folder in Visual Studio Code

  1. Launch Visual Studio Code.

  2. From the menu bar, select File > Open Folder and navigate to and select the folder you created in the previous step.

Initialize Terraform

Before you can begin using the Terraform commands from within Visual Studio Code, you download the plug-ins for two Azure providers: random and azurerm.

  1. In the Terminal pane of the Visual Studio Code IDE, enter terraform init.

  2. Enter az login, press <Enter, and follow the on-screen instructions.

Module test: lint

  1. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: Execute Test.

  2. From the list of test-type options, select lint.

  3. When the confirmation appears, select OK, and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note

When you execute either the lint or end to end test, Azure uses a container service to provision a test machine to perform the actual test. For this reason, your test results may typically take several minutes to be returned.

After a few moments, you see a listing in the Terminal pane similar to this example:

Test the module

  1. From the menu bar, select View > Command Palette > Azure Terraform: Execute Test.

  2. From the list of test type options, select end to end.

  3. When the confirmation appears, select OK, and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note

When you execute either the lint or end to end test, Azure uses a container service to provision a test machine to perform the actual test. For this reason, your test results may typically take several minutes to be returned.

After a few moments, you see a listing in the Terminal pane similar to this example:

Troubleshooting

For Terraform-specific support, use one of HashiCorp's community support channels to Terraform:

  • Questions, use-cases, and useful patterns: Terraform section of the HashiCorp community portal
  • Provider-related questions: Terraform Providers section of the HashiCorp community portal

Next steps

Update 1.54.1: The update addresses an issue with an extension dependency.

Update 1.54.2: The update addresses these issues.

Update 1.54.3: The update addresses this issue.

Downloads: Windows: UserSystemARM | Mac: Universal64 bitArm64 | Linux: snapdebrpmtarballARM

Welcome to the February 2021 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:

  • Apple Silicon builds - VS Code is now available in stable for Apple Silicon.
  • Accessibility improvements - Better word navigation on Windows and roles for views and buttons.
  • Persistent terminal processes - Local terminal processes are restored on window reload.
  • Product Icon Themes - Personalize your VS Code icon imagery with Product Icon Themes.
  • Timeline view improvements - Compare changes across Git history timeline entries.
  • Auto reload Notebooks - Notebooks automatically reload when their file changes on disk.
  • Remote ports table view - Remote ports now shown in a table widget.
  • Brackets extensions - Use Brackets keyboard shortcuts in VS Code.
  • Troubleshooting extensions blog post - Learn to troubleshoot extensions using extension bisect.

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

Join us live at the VS Code team's livestream on Thursday, March 11 at 8am Pacific (4pm London) to see a demo of what's new in this release, and ask us questions live.

Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available.

Apple Silicon

We are happy to announce our first release of stable Apple Silicon builds this iteration. Users on Macs with M1 chips can now use VS Code without emulation with Rosetta, and will notice better performance and longer battery life when running VS Code. Thanks to the community for self-hosting with the Insiders build and reporting issues early in the iteration.

The default download of VS Code for macOS is now a Universal build that runs natively on all Macs. On the Downloads page, you can find more links to architecture-specific builds for Intel or Apple Silicon, which are smaller downloads compared to the Universal package.

Accessibility

Toolbars and tabs occupy one tab stop

All toolbars in the workbench now follow the standard navigation behavior, so the toolbar occupies only a single position in the tab order, and is navigable with the arrow keys. Once the focus is on the toolbar, arrow keys should be used to move focus to a specific item in the toolbar. As a result of this change, the workbench has far fewer tab stops, making it easier to navigate across all the parts.

For consistency, the same change was applied to the tabs area. Thus the whole tab area is only one tab stop, and keyboard navigation between tabs should be done with the left and right arrow keys.

Word navigation on Windows

We have improved how word navigation is done on Windows to align with what Screen Readers on Windows expect from an Electron-based application. Now, when using word navigation, each word will be properly read out by the Screen Reader.

Due to this change, we are deprecating the following commands. They will still work, but we might remove them in the future.

  • cursorWordAccessibilityLeft
  • cursorWordAccessibilityLeftSelect
  • cursorWordAccessibilityRight
  • cursorWordAccessibilityRightSelect

Non-Windows platforms already worked as expected, so we made no changes there.

Improved roles for views and buttons

Based on user feedback, we have improved the roles of multiple views and buttons across the workbench. Activity Bar, Side Bar, and Panel now have role:none, which will make the screen reader less chatty. Manage and Accounts buttons inside the Activity Bar now properly announce they have a popup.

Integrated Terminal

Retain terminal processes on window reload

Local terminal processes are now restored on window reload, such as when an extension install requires a reload. The terminal will be reconnected and the UI state of the terminals will be restored, including the active tab and split terminal relative dimensions.

This feature can be disabled by setting terminal.integrated.enablePersistentSessions to false.

Windows performance improvements

Thanks to the new terminal process layout, frequent pty data events from terminal processes should now process more quickly. This is expected to affect Windows more than other platforms due to the smaller events provided by conpty on Windows.

Automatically relaunch terminal requiring environment changes

Recently a new feature was rolled out that enabled extensions to influence the terminal's environment. This is used by various language extensions and the built-in git extension to enable VS Code as a git auth provided to negate the need to sign in. Previously the UX for this was to present a subtle ⚠️ icon in the top-right corner to indicate that a terminal's environment was stale. The indicator was subtle, since environment changes may or not be important.

We've tweaked this to automatically relaunch terminals that have stale environments when they have not yet been interacted with. This may result in some flickering, but extension terminal integration is much more seamless now. For example, the first terminal in a Remote - WSL window should no longer show a Git auth error, provided the relaunch happened before typing in the terminal.

Workbench

Emmet

The Wrap with Abbreviation and Wrap Individual Lines with Abbreviation commands have been merged into a single Wrap with Abbreviation command to reduce any confusion over which wrap command to use. Additionally, the Wrap with Abbreviation command now shows the preview whitespace properly.

The emmet.extensionsPath setting can now also take in an array of paths, rather than just a string. Therefore, when combined with Settings Sync, one can point to different snippet files depending on the machine they are on, without having to update the setting per machine.

Product Icon Themes

The first Product Icon Themes have become available in the Extension Marketplace. Thanks to the theme authors for the great work!

To select or find a theme, use the Preference: Product Icon Theme command from the command prompt or the Settings gear.

IntelliSense for context keys

VS Code uses when-clauses to enable and disable keybindings. Extensions also use when-clauses to control menu- and view-contributions. Authoring these when-clauses is now much simpler because the editor offers completions for them.

Theme: GitHub Light Theme, Font: FiraCode

Open Editors New Untitled File action

There is now a New Untitled File action in the Open Editors view title area.

Updated application menu settings

The window.menuBarVisibility setting for the application menu visibility has been updated to better reflect the options. Two primary changes have been made.

First, the default option for the setting has been renamed to classic.

Second, the Show Menu Bar entry in the application menu bar now toggles between the classic and compact options. To hide it completely, you can update the setting, or use the context menu of the Activity Bar when in compact mode.

Theme: GitHub Light Theme

Webview caching improvements

We've improved caching for a local file inside a webview. If a webview reloads a file from disk, then we now use ETags to avoid reading the file again if it has not changed. This can eliminate data transfer, and improves response time, especially for remote workspaces.

This caching currently only applies when an existing webview reloads a resource. It does not apply to newly created webviews, even if that webview belongs to an extension that previously created a similar webview.

Changes to workspace search actions

We have modified the existing workbench.view.search to no longer place the selected text into the search input, but instead open the input. To create a new search using the selected text and respecting the search.mode setting, workbench.action.findInFiles should be used.

Modifier only keybindings

It is now possible to define keybindings for duplicate modifiers, for example, shift shift, alt alt, ctrl ctrl or cmd cmd / meta meta / win win. These keybindings can be entered manually in keybindings.json, for example:

Updated list/tree UI

We have updated the list/tree styles to match native focus and selection indicators: focused elements will now be rendered with an outline color.

Breaking change

Theme publishers are advised to adopt this style as well simply by swapping the customization of the list.focusBackground color for the quickInput.list.focusBackground color. To see an example, check out this commit.

Table widget

We introduced a new table widget, built on top of the existing list widget, so we can render tabular data with the same performance as we can render list elements. For now, it is used in the Ports view for our Remote features.

Getting Started

We are experimenting with a new editor to show on startup, called the Getting Started editor. This is intended to make some of VS Code's features more approachable to new users. Some Insiders users may have already seen it, and it will be slowly rolled out to more Stable users over the course of this iteration. You can always opt in or out of the new behavior by modifying the workbench.startupEditor setting to or away from gettingStarted.

Timeline view

You can now compare changes across Git history timeline entries, using the Select for Compare and Compare with Selected commands—similar to comparing files in the Explorer view. This feature lets you quickly see all the changes between any two commits in your Git file history.

Default sash hover border color

In the 1.52 release, we introduced the hover border color token for sashes (sash.hoverBorder), but did not set a default. We now show this color by default on all themes.

Debugging

Breakpoints view improvements

New inline action for removing breakpoints

We have added an inline action X to remove breakpoints in the Breakpoints view. This action should make it easier to remove breakpoints.

Help text support for exception filters

Recently we have added support for editing conditions on exception filters in the Breakpoints view.

In order to make these conditions more discoverable and their syntax self-explanatory, VS Code now shows a hover on the exception filter and a placeholder text in the condition text box.

Since the information for both is provided by the underlying debug extension, it can be much more specific (and thus helpful) than some generic message.

Since this new feature is based on additions to the Debug Adapter Protocol (see below), it requires an opt-in of debug extensions. In this release, only VS Code's built-in JavaScript debugger supports the new feature.

New settings and other improvements

Collapse identical lines in the Debug Console

There is a new setting, debug.console.collapseIdenticalLines, that controls if the Debug Console should collapse identical lines and show many occurrences with a badge. The default is to collapse.

Control which editors to save before debugging

There is a new setting, debug.saveBeforeStart, that controls what editors to save before debugging starts. This setting has the following values:

  • allEditorsInActiveGroup: Save all editors in the active group. The default value.
  • nonUntitledEditorsInActiveGroup: Save all editors in the active group except untitled ones.
  • none: Don't save any editors.

This setting is useful for PowerShell debugging since the PowerShell debugger supports debugging unsaved files.

Improved Enablement for Restart Frame action

With a new addition to the Debug Adapter Protocol debug extensions are now able to communicate to the VS Code UI whether the 'Restart Frame' action is available on a selected stack frame. VS Code now disables the restart frame inline action in the Call Stack view for stack frames that cannot be restarted.

For example JS-Debug extension has adopted this and now async stack traces disable the restart frame action.

Languages

TypeScript 4.2

VS Code now ships with TypeScript 4.2.2. This major update includes many TypeScript language improvements, along with many improvements and bug fixes for JavaScript and TypeScript tooling.

You can read more about TypeScript 4.2 on the TypeScript blog.

Quick Fix to declare missing functions

The new Add missing function declaration Quick Fix stubs out missing functions. For example, if we have a call to a missing function add:

Using Add missing function declaration on add results in:

You can use this Quick Fix while writing code to quickly stub out a function based on a call signature.

To use this Quick Fix in JavaScript, you must enable type checking.

JS Doc templates now generate @returns

JS Doc templates now automatically include @returns if the function being annotated includes a return statement. For example, for the function getViz:

The generated JSDoc template is:

You can disable @returns in JSDoc comments with javascript.suggest.jsdoc.generateReturns and typescript.suggest.jsdoc.generateReturns.

Deprecated DOM APIs are now marked

Deprecated DOM methods are now marked as deprecated in suggestions and in code:

You can disable showing deprecated properties and functions in the editor by setting editor.showDeprecated: false.

Notebooks

Automatically reload notebooks

Notebooks now automatically reload when their file changes on disk and when they don't have unsaved changes. This should make it much simpler to work with notebooks that are under version control.

Improved focus for large cells

When a large notebook cell is focused, you can now better tell which cell is focused when the top and bottom of the cells are out of view. We now show a border on the left and right side of the focused cell.

Hovers in CSS/LESS/SCSS and HTML

You can now fine-tune the content of hovers in HTML and CSS to:

  • Not show the documentation from MDN
  • Not show the link to the MDN page

Use the settings css.hover.documentation and css.hover.references to change the hovers for CSS. Replace css with html, css, scss or less to change the settings for those languages.

Preview features

Extensible Markdown renderers for notebooks

This iteration, we explored making the Markdown renderer for notebook cells extensible. In the screenshot below, for example, we've extended VS Code's Markdown renderer to support showing math formula in notebook cells:

In order to make our Markdown renderer extensible, we explored using Markdown It to render all notebook Markdown. We also explored moving the rendered Markdown into the backlayer webview of the notebook.

While we aren't yet ready to open up an official API for this, we plan on continuing this exploration in March. You can also try out the new extensible Markdown renderers today with the undocumented notebook.experimental.useMarkdownRenderer: true setting.

Contributions to extensions

Brackets

Developers coming from the Brackets source code editor can keep using their same keyboard shortcuts in VS Code with the Brackets Keymap extension. There is also a Brackets Extension Pack, which bundles extensions for working with CSS and creating live previews.

GitHub Pull Requests and Issues

Work continues on the GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension, which allows you to work on, create, and manage pull requests and issues.

To learn about all the new features and updates, you can see the full changelog for the 0.24.0 release of the extension.

Remote Development

Work continues on the Remote Development extensions, which allow you to use a container, remote machine, or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as a full-featured development environment.

Feature highlights in 1.54 include:

  • Ports view table layout
  • Remote - SSH: X11 Forwarding
  • Remote - WSL: Improved WSL 2 support

You can learn about new extension features and bug fixes in the Remote Development release notes.

Extension authoring

Limits for editor title menu and 'run' submenu

The space in the editor toolbar (editor/title) is limited. Therefore, we have

  • implemented an overflow behavior. When the primary group, that is, the group of actions that get rendered with icons, exceeds nine commands then all additional commands overflow into the ... menu.
  • added the editor/title/run submenu. We ask extension authors to contribute run- and debug-commands into this menu, not into the editor/title-menu anymore as we had recommended in a previous release. In addition, it is no longer necessary to use the magic group values 1_run@10 and 1_run@20 in order to make the commands show up in the correct position.

Also know that the run submenu is dynamic, will replace itself with its first child when that's the only child.

Authentication Provider API

You can now register an authentication provider, which can be used by other extensions to perform authentication against a service.

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New feedback channel for the Extension Marketplace

There's a new public repository for issues related to the Extension Marketplace. If you have technical issues, want to give feedback, or have feature requests, please open an issue.

Updated codicons

We've added the following new icons to our codicon library:

  • debug-rerun
  • gather
  • git-pull-request-create
  • notebook-template
  • run-above
  • run-below
  • type-hierarchy
  • type-hierarchy-sub
  • type-hierarchy-super
  • variable-group

We've also updated the following icons to be consistent:

  • debug-alt-small
  • debug-alt
  • debug-rerun
  • play-circle
  • play
  • run-above
  • run-all
  • run-below

Proposed extension APIs

Every milestone comes with new proposed APIs and extension authors can try them out. As always, we want your feedback. This is what you have to do to try out a proposed API:

  • You must use Insiders because proposed APIs change frequently.
  • You must have this line in the package.json file of your extension: 'enableProposedApi': true.
  • Copy the latest version of the vscode.proposed.d.ts file into your project's source location.

You cannot publish an extension that uses a proposed API. There may be breaking changes in the next release and we never want to break existing extensions.

Icon contribution point

The icon contribution point allows extensions to define a new icon by ID, along with a default icon. That icon ID can then be used by the extension (or any other extensions that depend on the extension) at the places where ThemeIcon can be used: In Markdown strings (for example, '$(distro-ubuntu)' Ubuntu 20.04') and at all places that take a ThemeIcon (for example, new ThemeIcon('distro-ubuntu')).

Product icon themes can redefine the icon (if they know about the icon ID).

For more information, see issue 114942 for details and to provide feedback.

Inline value provider API

Today the Show Inline Values feature of VS Code's debugger is based on a generic implementation in VS Code core, and doesn't provide customizability through settings or extensibility via extensions. As a consequence, it is not a perfect fit for all languages and sometimes shows incorrect values because it doesn't understand the underlying source language. For this reason, we are working on an extension API that allows to replace the built-in implementation completely or to replace parts of the implementation with custom code.

In this milestone, we've made a first implementation of the proposed API available.

Here is the inline values provider API in a nutshell:

  • an InlineValuesProvider must be registered for a language.
  • for a given document the InlineValuesProvider must locate all language elements for which inline values should be shown.
  • for every element an InlineValue descriptor object must be returned which instructs VS Code what information to show. Currently three types of InlineValue objects are supported:
    • InlineValueText: the complete text to be shown,
    • InlineValueVariableLookup: the name of a variable that VS Code will try to look up in the VARIABLES view to find its value. The name and the value are then shown in the form 'name = value',
    • InlineValueEvaluatableExpression: an expression that VS Code will send to the debugger for evaluation. The expression and the result are then shown in the form 'expression = result'.

The following snippet (from Mock Debug) shows a minimal inline values provider for 'markdown' files that uses a regular expression to locate 'variables' and then instructs VS Code to find their values via the Variables view:

And now the inline values provider in action:

If you want to provide feedback for this proposed API, please add comments to this issue.

Testing

We continued to make progress on testing in VS Code. This month we focused on refining the base experience in VS Code and the extension APIs. We have also published some provisional documentation on testing, which will be fleshed out as the APIs continue to stabilize.

Language Server Protocol

A first proposal of a diagnostic pull model got implemented for the upcoming 3.17 release. The proposal is available in the next versions of the VS Code LSP libraries.

Debug Adapter Protocol

More help text properties for ExceptionBreakpointsFilter

Two optional UI attributes description and conditionDescription have been added to the ExceptionBreakpointsFilter.

With these attributes, clients can display additional information about exception breakpoints. The description property could be displayed in a hover and the conditionDescription could be used as a placeholder text for a text box where the condition can be edited.

Improved description for setExceptionBreakpoints request

We have improved the description of the setExceptionBreakpoints request by adding guidance for what an adapter should do if the user inputs an invalid exception breakpoint condition.

New canRestart property for stack frames

A new optional boolean property canRestart has been added to the stack frame. It indicated whether the stack frame can be restarted with the restart request. Based on this information a client can enable or disable a Restart Frame context menu action.

Engineering

Progress on Electron sandbox

This milestone we continued to make the VS Code window ready for enabling Electron's sandbox and context isolation features.

Specifically:

  • We were able to move some of the native module requirements we have in the renderer to other processes.
  • The MessagePort communication channel was implemented to work when sandbox is enabled.

New terminal process layout

Terminal processes are now spawned under a new 'pty host' process, instead of the window process. This change is not only part of the Electron sandbox but should also improve stability and performance of the terminal.

Windows installers published to Windows Package Manager

Windows user and system installers for x86 and x64 are now being published to the Windows Package Manager. You can use the winget tool to search for all Visual Studio Code installers - winget search vscode, and install any of the published installers.

Building VS Code using TypeScript 4.3

VS Code now is built using a nightly build of TypeScript 4.3. This lets us validate the TypeScript team's latest work and also provide feedback on new changes.

The latest TypeScript version already helped us catch a few cases where we were missing awaits in conditionals.

Prevent yarn.lock changes

We now have CI that prevents PRs against yarn.lock files, in order to improve supply chain security.

Default branch: main

We have started renaming the default branch of all our repositories to main, including microsoft/vscode. We are about 60% finished with this effort.

Documentation

VS Code and Python in the classroom

Read the case study of a Computer Science professor at Harvey Mudd College, who uses VS Code in his introductory CS classes with Python. Learn about the settings he recommends for his students, as well as helpful extensions and free self-paced Python and Data Science lessons.

Troubleshooting extensions blog post

Everybody loves installing and using VS Code extensions. However, when you have lots of extensions installed, sometimes the editor can start to act 'funny' and it would be great to know if the behavior is caused by a specific extension. If you missed the earlier announcement of the extension bisect utility, you can read this 'Resolving extension issues with bisect' blog post, which describes how you can quickly troubleshoot 'bad' extensions and even help the extension author(s) with feedback.

Notable fixes

  • 100151: menu key applied to the wrong item in explorer
  • 112055: Debug opens a new integrated terminal for each Python session
  • 114881: Preserve symlinks when copying folders or files
  • 114933: 'Task cannot be tracked' frustration
  • 115922: Cursor keys not working for filtering in File Explorer
  • 116037: No Link hovers shown for output in the Debug Console
  • 116101: I can't find target command in command search because the English description has disappeared
  • 116932: Throwing custom exceptions from contributed command execution shows cryptic error popup

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Thank you

Last but certainly not least, a big Thank You to the following people who contributed this month to VS Code:

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Contributions to our issue tracking:

Contributions to vscode:

  • @antonvolokha (Anton Volokha): Fix issue #116591 PR #116885
  • @CameronIrvine (Cameron): Fix #114432: Multiple save dialogs appearing on Windows if Ctrl+S is pressed multiple times PR #114450
  • @davidbailey00 (David Bailey): RPM: Don't generate build_id links PR #116105
  • @DonJayamanne (Don Jayamanne): Ensure Notebook Cell runState is updated correctly PR #116901
  • @engelsdamien (Damien Engels): Explicitly list out tsec exemption PR #116460
  • @ferenczy (Dawid Ferenczy Rogožan): Corrected typo in the localization string wordBasedSuggestionsMode PR #115809
  • @gjsjohnmurray (John Murray): Improve guidance commentary in GH Bug Report template PR #116183
  • @guiherzog (Guilherme Herzog): Improving performance of tree traversal on getViewState function PR #115387
  • @habibkarim (Habib Karim): Handle normalized absolute file paths on markdown preview link click PR #116649
  • @jeanp413 (Jean Pierre)
    • Fixes #115922 PR #116005
    • Emmet: add output.reverseAttributes option PR #116088
    • Fix vscode becomes unresponsive after pasting filename with many dots in explorer PR #116268
    • Consolidate wrapWithAbbreviation and wrapIndividualLinesWithAbbreviation in one command PR #116603
  • @jogo-: Fix spelling in papercuts.github-issues PR #115452
  • @Klagopsalmer (Alexandre Schnegg): Fixes #95040 PR #116027
  • @lancewl (Hsuan-An Weng Lin)
    • Emmet: add css.color.short setting PR #116912
    • Emmet: add support of multiple extensions path PR #117105
  • @leereilly (Lee Reilly): Add period to list item for consistency PR #115375
  • @manuth (Manuel Thalmann): Allow Markdown-Rendering Without Providing an Env-Parameter PR #117041
  • @mdesrosiers (Martin Desrosiers): Update marked to 2.0.0 PR #117714 (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/115192)
  • @MarcoZehe (Marco Zehe): Upgrade Playwright to v1.8.0. PR #115241
  • @nrayburn-tech (Nicholas Rayburn): Rename function in git extension PR #113673
  • @obsgolem (Josiah Bills): Added a new 'blankLine' option for move units PR #115578
  • @pfitzseb (Sebastian Pfitzner): Add Julia grammar PR #115309
  • @PathToLife (PathToLife): Feature: Shift Shift, Ctrl Ctrl, Alt Alt Keybinds (Double press modifer keybind support) PR #115190
  • @rluvaton (Raz Luvaton): fix(workbench): add forgotten escaping in regex PR #115336
  • @samrg123 (Samuel Gonzalez): Fixed issue #108301 by escaping URI before creating a MarkdownString. PR #112330
  • @sargreal (Felix Haase): remove colon from git host in askpass arguments PR #117230
  • @shskwmt (Shunsuke Iwamoto)
    • Fixes 114236: Add a multi-line comment regex to unIndentedLinePattern PR #114478
    • Fixes 115154: Add 'overflow: hidden' style to split-view-view PR #115345
  • @susiwen8 (susiwen8)
    • Fix: add alwaysConsumeMouseWheel for list PR #114182
    • Fix: wrong event for onDidSaveNotebookDocumentPR #115855
  • @SchoofsKelvin (Kelvin Schoofs): Fix issue #114473 PR #114474
  • @tspence (Ted Spence)
    • Allow issue service to display a bug report window when remote extension host is crashed PR #116896
    • Fix webview focus issues that prevent cut/copy/paste when opening files with a quick pick PR #116899
  • @TacticalDan: Reduce arbitrary event limiter from 16ms down to 4.16666 (#_107016) PR #114957
  • @ugultopu (Utku Gultopu): Fix misspelling of 'likelihood' PR #116728
  • @vagusX (vagusX): fix: prevent scroll when list focused in zone-widget PR #114912
  • @Wscats (Eno Yao): Supplementary function parameter types PR #115751

Contributions to language-server-protocol:

  • @DanTup (Danny Tuppeny): Fix reference to insertReplaceSupport capability PR #1207
  • @reznikmm (Maxim Reznik): Minor fix in MD formatting PR #1208

Contributions to vscode-languageserver-node:

  • @xAlien95 (Stefano De Carolis): Fix broken doc markdown link PR #741

Contributions to vscode-emmet-helper:

Visual Studio Code Apple M1

  • @aliasliao (Liao Jinyuan): provide completions for pascal-case tags when typing jsx PR #53
  • @AnuBhar (Anushka Bhargava): Fix for 114923 - HTML figcaption tag should be suggested when using the full word PR #44
  • @jeanp413 (Jean Pierre)
    • Fixes vscode #65464 PR #46
    • Enables output.reverseAttributes option PR #47
  • @johnsoncodehk (Johnson Chu): fix: doComplete result may be undefined PR #51
  • @lancewl (Hsuan-An Weng Lin)
    • Enable stylesheet.shortHex option PR #50
    • Enable multiple extensions path to emmet.extensionPath setting PR #52
  • @shskwmt (Shunsuke Iwamoto): Fixes 115946(vscode): Add '{' to htmlAbbreviationStartRegex PR #45

Contributions to vscode-html-languageservice:

  • @sapphi-red (翠 / green): Remove existing attribute from autocomplete suggestions PR #99

Contributions to vscode-js-debug:

  • @Cu2y (Q): Dependabot/npm and yarn/ini 1.3.8 PR #921

Contributions to vscode-textmate:

  • @msftrncs (Carl Morris): Improve endless loop detection PR #146

Contributions to vscode-vsce:

Visual Studio Code M1

  • @felipecrs (Felipe Santos): Add verify-pat command PR #532