Microsoft VS Code 1.42 is out: New debug tools for TypeScript, JavaScript, Chrome Microsoft delivers new improvements and fixes for its popular cross-platform code editor, Visual Studio Code.

The source code editor now allows the selection of a default browser and brings new features for pull requests. Support for TypeScript 5.6 is also included.

To configure which browser to open links, Visual Studio Code 1.92 provides a new setting, workbench.externalBrowser. Developers can configure this setting on a per-workspace level. The setting ...

Preview version 0.8.0 adds TypeScript 1.6 support, improved debugging features, themes, and takes care of Windows setup bugaboos that have plagued some VSC users.

Microsoft has moved its Edge browser development tools for Visual Studio Code from preview to general availability, providing in-editor web site debugging and other functionality.