Visual Studio Code finalizes test coverage API

Microsoft has unveiled Visual Studio Code 1.88, also known as the March 2024 release of the company’s popular code editor. The update brings capabilities such as a test coverage API, custom editor labels, and locked scrolling.

Introduced on April 4, Visual Studio Code 1.88 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac from the project website.

In this release, Microsoft has finalized its Test Coverage API, bringing native coverage support to VS Code. If a developer’s testing system supports it, coverage can be accessed using the new Run With Coverage button. Using test coverage requires that your VS Code extension implements the new API.

Custom editor labels, meanwhile, allow developers to customize the display label for editor tabs and the Open editors view. This functionality can be used to distinguish between editors for files with the same name, Microsoft said. And with locked scrolling, developers can synchronize scrolling across visible editors by using the View: Toggle Locked Scrolling Across Editors command. When developers scroll in one editor, all the other editors scroll by the same amount, keeping everything aligned.

Also in Visual Studio 1.88:

Visual Studio Code 1.88 follows the late-February release of Visual Studio Code 1.87, which introduced voice dictation.