Panel:


Charles Max Wood


Special Guests: Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver

In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber/Adventures In Angular, panelists discuss Visual Studio Code and the VS Code Azure Extension with Matt Hernandez and Amanda Silver at Microsoft Build. Amanda is the director of program management at Microsoft working on Visual Studio and VS Code. Matt works on a mix between the Azure and the VS Code team, where he leads the effort to build the Azure extensions in VS code, trying to bring JavaScript developers to Azure through great experiences in VS Code. They talk about what’s new in VS Code, how the Azure extension works, what log points are, and much more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:


Amanda intro
Matt intro
What’s new in VS Code?
VS Code core
VS Live Share
Shared Terminal
Now have Linux support
Live Share is now public to the world for free
What would you use Shared Terminal for?
Are there other things coming up in VS Code?
Constantly responding to requests from the community
Live Share works for any language
How does the Azure extension work?
Azure App Service
Storage extension
Azure Cosmos DB
What are log points?
All a part of a larger plan to create a better experience for JS developers
Visual debuggers
Is it the same plugin to support everything on Azure?
Want to target specific services that node developers will take advantage of
And much, much more!


Links:


Visual Studio
VS Code
Azure
Live Share
Azure Cosmos DB
Microsoft Build
Azure App Service
Amanda’s GitHub
@amandaksilver
Matt’s GitHub
@fiveisprime


Picks:

Charles


Orphan Black
Shout out to VS Code team
Battle of the Books


Matt


The Customer-Driven Playbook by Travis Lowdermilk
The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
Yes, And by Kelly Leonard
Digital Marketing For Dummies by Ryan Deiss
Ed Gets His Power Back Kickstarter


Amanda


Microsoft Quantum Development Kit for Visual Studio Code
Iggy Peck, Architect
Tek by Patrick McDonnell