The popularity of the editor and the vast number of extensions can lead to a bloated setup and impact performance. The concept could have value in tailoring VS Code for specific types of work. Use cases include standardising settings for a development team, or providing students with a pre-configured setup. It does not yet include all settings but more comprehensive import and export is planned. This includes which extensions are installed as well as UI customizations such as which items are visible in the Activity Bar – the bar with icons for key functions like Explorer, Search and source control. Perhaps the most strategic change in this release though is a preview feature, the ability to import and export settings profiles. This makes updating a large document without breaking links much easier. Related is the new ability to rename link destinations including headers, file links, and reference links, while automatically updating any links that target them. Another new Markdown feature is find all references, which works for headers, links, file references, and URLs. Authors can create links to files by drag and drop from the Explorer or from a web browser while holding down shift, handy for documentation. In this latest release it is on by default, which means those developers who had not discovered it before may wonder how they managed without it.Ĭolor-coded bracket pairs help with navigating and correcting code – now on by default Colour-coding the pairs is a great help, and also works with brackets to help disentangle long lines of code. Sometimes small changes make the biggest impact, and that may be the case with bracket pair colorization, a feature that was originally an extension but became part of VS Code’s core in August 2021 – with a claimed 10,000 times performance improvement.ĭeeply nested code in curly brace languages like JavaScript, Java, C and C# can be difficult to navigate or correct when it goes wrong, and inadvertently deleting a brace can cause the editor to report hundreds of errors. It has become a monster project and issues are opened every few minutes on GitHub. Microsoft and the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team have rolled out version 1.67 of the Electron-based editor that has become the world’s favorite IDE – StackOverflow’s last survey reckoned it was used by 71.06% of respondents, more than double the usage of second-placed Visual Studio.
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