Today, the company launched a new project that makes it significantly easier to get started with writing Java on VS Code.

This Visual Studio Code for Java tutorial shows you how to install the Java extensions pack for VS Code, create a Java project and run a simple program.

To build along with this tutorial, you will need to have Java and Maven installed. You will also need the latest Visual Studio Code distribution for your system, if you don’t already have it.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

The recently introduced project view for managing Java projects in Visual Studio Code received several enhancements in the latest update to Java functionality provided in Microsoft's popular open ...

Microsoft has released another update of its Java on Visual Studio Code, the package of extensions used by Redmond's lightweight source code editor to support Java coding, testing and debugging.

The latest update to Java on Visual Studio Code gets new functionality provided by Red Hat via its language support extension. Java tooling for the open source-based, cross-platform code editor is ...

News Java on VS Code 2022 Roadmap Includes Wider Path to Cloud Native By David Ramel January 26, 2022 In the coming year, Microsoft plans to emphasize cloud native development as it adds features and ...

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