
Remote Development (Preview) available in Stable - You can now use the Remote Development extensions in Stable.Īlso, VS Code now supports TypeScript 3.5.1, an update that Microsoft said "brings TypeScript language improvements, along with tooling enhancements for both JavaScript and TypeScript.Collapse All command for lists and explorers - One of many small but handy improvements.Better merge conflict display - See merge conflict changes within surrounding source code.Integrated terminal supports true color - Correctly renders true color (24-bit) escape sequences.Extract to type alias TypeScript refactoring - Extract part type into its own type alias.Smart selection for JavaScript/TypeScript - Expand text selection based on language semantics.Breadcrumb navigation displayed by default - Quickly go to files and symbols via breadcrumbs.


Go to Definition improvements - Faster navigation through multiple definitions.Pre-2017 VS Code Icon (source: Microsoft).Īn October 2017 post titled The Icon Journey provides more background and design thinking, mentioning the "passionate feedback" received.Īs far as the code editor itself, the team changed a bunch of things and added some stuff, detailed thusly: Here's the icon previous to the 2017 change: Here's the comparison with the previous icon (from an earlier post when the new icon was in proposal): Here are the icons for the stable and insiders editions: We are also using same logo on all platforms." " We've taken feedback from the community (thank you to everyone who responded) and we are happy to release the new logos for Stable and Insiders. "Over the past two months, we've been working on updating the VS Code product logo," the post says.

Perhaps in a nod to the delicate design sensibilities of developers, the VS Code team led off today's announcement post - sporting all kinds of new features and functionality updates - with the icon change. In fact, when Microsoft unveiled new icons for VS Code with an orange tint, the backlash was so great that the company reversed its decision on a color change.

Risking developer wrath, Microsoft has again changed the Visual Studio Code icon in the May 2019 edition, version 1.35.Īn icon change in 2017, stirred up quite a bit of opinionated feedback, and Microsoft has acknowledged the brouhaha in the Refreshing the VS Code product icon GitHub issue.
