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.

Google's Bard AI chatbot is now able to help users with programming, including generating code, debugging and code explanation.

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 ...