What's the difference, besides the change in nomenclature? 'No longer do you need to manage settings to switch between the two,' notes Dias. And with the January release of VS Code earlier this month, the team introduced a new Insider Build. You could not easily switch back to Stable if you hit a blocking issue with the Insiders drop, without having to change settings.' So, the team retired the Insider Program back in November. As Microsoft's Chris Dias explains in a blog post, 'You had to choose whether you want to work with the Stable (the official monthly release) or the Insiders version. The Insider Program was a bit cumbersome, however. For those who joined it, developers were able to participate earlier in using some of the more experimental features before those features were released to the general developer community. It made the blog move from the MSDN blog site to its very own corner at official as of February 20.Įvolution is also been the case for it's Insiders Program. There has been so much evolution, the team developing it has started to centralize everything in one place just so developers can keep up with developments. Visual Studio Code by its very nature as as Web-centered technology is constantly being updated.

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