Installation

The easiest way to install this extension is using the Extension Manager built into Visual Studio to install the Java Language Support extension from the Visual Studio Gallery.

Changes

• Features (general)
  • Support Visual Studio 2015 (currently at CTP 6)
• Bug fixes (project system)
  • Java build system does not support 64-bit JDK (#13)
• Bug fixes (debugger)
  • Automatically add project references to the debugger classpath (#14)
  • Incorrect debugger display of control characters (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#22)
  • Debugger watch windows cannot handle toString() which returns null (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#29)
  • Expression evaluator cannot resolve fields in outer classes (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#31)
  • IDebugExpressionEvaluationCompleteEvent2 is not sent when evaluation fails (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#32)
  • Cannot view disassembly unless source code is available (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#33)
  • Cannot disassemble tableswitch instruction (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#34)
  • Cannot debug applications with certain name collisions (tunnelvisionlabs/LangSvcV2#35)
• Features (debugger)
  • Very early experimental support for using JDWP as the transport layer for debugging (#19)

Acknowledgements

Thank you goes to all of the following users, who contributed feedback, bug reports, code submissions, testing, and reviews which helped in this release. In alphabetical order by username. This list does not include people who contacted us through other channels, but your feedback is no less valuable so we thank you as well.

• @mluparu
• @sriksrid