Vscode: May Iteration Plan

This plan captures the focus of our work during the May iteration. It's a 5 week iteration. We will ship early June.

Endgame

• May, 29th: Code freeze for the endgame
• June 2nd: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #27415.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Legend for annotations:

| Mark | Description |
| ------------- | ------------- |
| :runner: | work in progress |
| :hand: | blocked task |
| :muscle: | stretch goal for this iteration |
| :large_blue_circle: | more details required |
| :red_circle: | missing issue reference |

Plan Items

Workbench

• [x] Design for multi root workspaces, multi folder, validate with user testing #396 @bpasero @tyriar
• [x] Investigate restructuring Welcome page into Learn and Configure sections #22097 @chrmarti
• [x] Improve presentation of documentation in intellisense #18582 #25812 @ramya-rao-a
• [x] Emmet 2.0 support #21943 @ramya-rao-a
• [x] Improve theming support for Welcome page #25798 @chrmarti
• [x] Remember scroll position when switching between webviews #22995 @mjbvz
• [x] Add command to install additional SCM provider extensions #25696 @isidorn @waderyan
• [x] React to feedback for workbench theming new colors@bpasero @aeschli

Editor

• [x] Find widget improvements #2657 #6158 #26498 @rebornix
• [x] Support to configure mouse/keyboard gesture for adding multiple cursors @alexandrudima
• [x] Improve the snippet infrastructure (enable emmet 2.0, support multi cursor) @jrieken

Monaco Editor

• [ ] :running: Improve editor accessibility focusing on Edge+Narrator #26730 @alexandrudima

Install/Update

• [x] 64 bits windows install #507 @joaomoreno
  update for April we will only make a zip install available, full install update is planned for June
• [x] Investigate improving update experience. (See also, #24823 too many update prompts for users) 26199 @joaomoreno, @isidorn

Integrated Terminal

• [ ] :runner: :muscle: Support selecting and copy more than just the visible text in a terminal #9958 @tyriar

Tasks

• [x] Finalize and publish task provider API #23435 @dbaeumer
• [x] Support to associate problem matchers with contributed tasks #25518 @dbaeumer
• [x] Contribute tasks for scripts in the package.json (in a bundled npm extension) #27447 @egamma

Languages

JavaScript/TypeScript

• [x] Finish support for TS server plugins #25740 @mjbvz
• [x] Improve TS editing experience #25842 @mjbvz
• [x] Contribute tasks for building and watching TypeScript #26079 @mjbvz
• [x] Initial preparations for adopting TS 2.4 in June #26080 @mjbvz

Markdown

• [x] Support quick outline for markdown #25574 @mjbvz

Debug

• [x] Allow remoteRoot also for node "Launch" action #11681 @weinand
• [x] Explore - SSH based remote debugging (e.g. for Azure App Services, Containers) #26205 @weinand
• [x] Honor the optional endLine and endColumn attributes of StackFrame and Breakpoint #8851 @isidorn
• [x] Improve stepping performance #25605 @isidorn
• [x] Support to copy the entire text of the debug console #2163 @isidorn
• [x] Investigate improving the debug toolbar placement #2513 @isidorn

Extensions API

• [x] Support to contribute a tree section to the explorer #26948 @sandy081
• [x] Allow extensions to use theme colors #26974 @aeschli

Extension Contributions

• [ ] :runner: Round up PHP language server PR https://github.com/felixfbecker/php-language-server/pull/357 @roblourens
• [x] Preview of a VS Code extension that bundles the tslint typeScript server plugin angelozerr/tslint-language-service#32 @egamma
• [x] VIM improvements https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/issues/1706 @rebornix

Engineering Items

• [ ] :runner: Hire new team member #27092 @kieferrm
• [ ] Open accessibility Issues all
• [x] Automate the Smoke test using Spectron #25291 @michelkaporin

Startup performance

• [x] Improve startup performance using cached data, V8 snapshots #25229 @jrieken

Issue management

• [x] Automate identifying, labeling, and closing stale issues #26223 @chrmarti
• [x] Make it easy to verify that an issue is from an extension by supporting to disable all extensions in the extensions viewlet @sandy081

Build

• [x] Can we use the TypeScript --noEmitHelper option to reduce the compiled output size and replace our custom solution #25612 @jrieken
• [x] Review Multi-arch build configurations (armhf/arm64) for Travis CI #24943 @joaomoreno

Documentation

Provide recipes for using VS Code with particular technologies

• [x] Debugging Docker with Source maps See repository. @weinand
• [x] Developing the MERN Starter in VS Code See repository. @weinand

Deferred

- Make v2 the default and provide parity with 1.0 @dbaeumer

• Typescript - Investigate improving the development support for TS server plugins #26235 @mjbvz

• Improve extension API to better support extensions that provided synching of the vs code setup #14444 @sandy081

  - Improve checkJS experience with React #26081 @mjbvz

• Editor - Publish a new version of the monaco editor @alexandrudima

• Editor - Investigate aligning column selection with other editors @alexandrudima
• Install - 64 bits windows install #507 @joaomoreno
• Debug - "Live Edit" [Node.js] #8127 #6930 @weinand
• Go https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/issues/959 @ramya-rao-a
• Enable electron crash reporter for all processes #21944 @ramya-rao-a
• Continue investigation into markdown extensions #22916 @mjbvz