In the regular monthly (June 2022) update to Java on Visual Studio Code, the dev team announced enhanced Spring Boot functionality as part of a major "Spring Boot End-to-end Improvement" push ...

VS Code for Java will still be possible to compile and run Java applications from Java 1.5 to 14," said Yaojin Yang, senior program manager, Developer Division at Microsoft, in a June 28 blog post.

The Java Extension Pack does all that via a bunch of extensions ranging from Red Hat's language support to Java Test Runner to Visual Studio's AI-assisted IntelliCode, along with several others.

The Java extensions within VSC are among the first to adopt the new Testing API from Visual Studio Code, with Microsoft making significant improvements to the Java testing experience with the ...

It will soon be possible to write and edit Java code entirely from within the Visual Studio IDE, thanks to an upgrade of JNBridge's namesake general purpose Java/.NET interoperability tool. The ...

BEA touts 'Visual Basic for Java' Written by Wylie Wong, Contributor Feb. 24, 2002 at 4:00 p.m. PT BEA Systems is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook with its latest Java tools strategy.

Visual Basic for Java: Project Semplice. The goal is to enable VB developers to use Java platform. It's not for porting existing applications, it just lets you use your VB skills.

Microsoft's Visual j# .Net Beta 1, which re-creates an old version of Java as a .Net language, has been a major source of debate among eWeek Labs staffers.

Visual MainWin does its best to map .Net entities to Java equivalents but must sometimes make exceptions — for example, in the case of exceptions.

Survey finds Visual Basic developers are moving to Microsoft's upgraded Visual Basic .Net as well as to Java and other language alternatives.