Microsoft has released
version 1.13 of Visual Studio Code in the May 2017 release. This latest version has been equipped with a lot of improvements, some significant updates, and some new features as well, so as to make it more user-friendly and powerful.
As per the official announcement, "Some of the key highlights include,
- Changes to settings defaults - We're enabling several useful features by default such as extensions auto-update, editor drag and drop and minimaps.
- Set multiple cursors with Ctrl/Cmd + Click - Add multi-cursors just like Sublime Text and Atom.
- Improved Git merge - Inline merge actions with Accept Changes CodeLens.
- Better IntelliSense details - Easily toggle full suggestion documentation.
- Emmet abbreviations display - Preview Emmet expansions as you type.
- Enhanced snippets - Increase your productivity with multi-cursor and nested snippets.
- Faster debugger performance - Stepping through source code is significantly faster.
- File links in exception stack traces - Jump directly to source code from exception stack traces.
- Docker and MERN debugging recipes - Debug configuration examples for Docker and MERN stack projects.
- More workbench theming colors - We've added more VS Code customizable colors.
- Better NVDA support - Accessibility improvements for the NVDA screen reader."
To get complete details of features and updates in Visual Studio Code v 1.13, you can go through the
release notes here, which are divided into six sections – Workbench, Editor, Languages, Debugging, Tasks, Extension Authoring – for better accessibility depending on the VS Code focus areas.