The latest update of Java on Visual Studio Code is focused on improving the code editor's debugging and testing features.

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code team for Java development added a new Coding Pack for Java installer and detailed best practices for setting up a development environment.

Java for Visual Studio Code now gets SonarLint 'spellchecker' tool, while the Python extension gets a new debugger.

As the dev team in charge of the Java Extension Pack and other tooling is halfway through the year, it published a July-to-December 2021 roadmap where much of the planned work is designed to improve ...

Maximizing code reuse in your Java programs means writing code that is easy to read, understand, and maintain. Here are eight ways to get started.

Give variables and methods logical names Another best practice on how to write clean code in Java is to assign logical, human-readable names to methods, variables, functions and other objects within ...

Java developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) source-code editor will find new features for the Spring Framework, as well as improvements for build tools and debugging, in the latest ...

“Java 14 removes so much noise in code,” Subramaniam says, pointing to Records, Pattern Matching, and Switch Expressions. (Switch Expressions was first previewed in JDK 12).

Microsoft released its roadmap for what its planned updates for Java on Visual Studio Code and highlighted its most important improvements in 2021.