Software Update: Visual Studio Code 1.59.0

Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor with support for IntelliSense, debugging, git and code snippets. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Support for common scripting and programming languages ​​is present and it can also be done via extensions to be expanded. Microsoft has released version 1.59 and detailed information about that release is on this page to find; this is the announcement:

July 2021 (version 1.59)

Welcome to the July 2021 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you will like, some of the key highlights include:

• Extensions view improvements – Rich extension detail hovers, new runtime status tab.
• Settings editor validation – Quickly find editing errors for object-based settings.
• Drag and drop terminals – Move terminals across windows to both editor and panel areas.
• Extended theme customization – Customize multiple color themes at once.
• Built-in support for Jupyter notebooks – Open .ipynb files directly in VS Code.
• Notebook UI improvements – Display first line of collapsed cells, Undo/Redo per cell.
• Testing API finalized – Native support for running tests in VS Code with built-in Test Explorer.
• Debug Disassembly view preview – Display disassembled C++ code in VS Code.
• Live Preview extension – Live HTML preview within VS Code with JavaScript debugging support.
• Remote – Containers devcontainer CLI – Command line interface for working with development containers.

If you’d like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com.