Visual Studio Code (VS Code) version 1.72 (September 2022) is now available for download. The latest version comes with the following improvements.- Story published by Kunal Chowdhury on .
Microsoft made several improvements to Visual Studio Code. With the latest update of Visual Studio Code (v1.72) the company brings enhanced customization options for Toolbar, better editor auto-scrolling, search results in a tree view, GitHub Enterprise Server authentication, and more.
For a detailed list of changes in Visual Studio Code version 1.72 (September 2022 Update), continue reading further.
- Tool bar customization - Hide/show tool bar actions.
- Better editor autoscrolling - Scrolling speed tuned to cursor location.
- Extensions view updates - Highlights extensions with updates or needing attention.
- Search results in a tree view - Review search results in either list or tree view.
- Nested Git repo support - Detects and displays nested Git submodules.
- Terminal Quick Fixes - Suggestions to correct command typos and set an upstream remote.
- Pin frequently used tasks - Pin tasks to the top of the Run Task dropdown for quick access.
- Markdown link validation - Automatically check header, file, and image links.
- GitHub Enterprise Server authentication - Improved login workflow no longer requires PAT.
- Dev Containers Features - Easily add and share functionality for development containers.
- VS Code Community Discussions - Connect with other VS Code extension authors.
We have made changes to enable cross origin isolation for VS Code desktop and vscode.dev. This will enable new powerful features like shared array buffers. Both VS Code itself and also extensions and webviews will benefit from this.
Cross origin isolation is currently behind a feature flag and enabling it might have unwanted effects on extensions and webviews that load resources from the internet. You can read more about this in Why you need "cross-origin isolated" for powerful features. We would like to hear your feedback early.
We reserved engineering time this milestone to improve the startup time it takes from launching VS Code to seeing a blinking cursor in the text editor. We always keep track of our performance numbers and noticed a slight degradation at the end of last milestone that we wanted to address.
This was a team effort where everyone was contributing various changes throughout the source code. A couple of highlights are mentioned here.
For pull requests, we run automatic unit, integration, and smoke testing. All this happens in parallel but each step requires that our TypeScript sources are transpiled into JavaScript code. Originally, we used the TypeScript compiler for this. It emits JavaScript but also does type checking. The latter is time consuming and for testing not really needed. The overall time cost, by which testing was delayed, was around 5 minutes. We then switched to a custom transpile-only solution that uses the TypeScript compiler API. This was much faster but still took around 2 minutes.
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