Visual Studio IntelliCode Insiders

The Visual Studio IntelliCode team is focused on iterating rapidly, trying out new ideas, and listening to our customers as we build AI-assisted developer tools for you. This Insiders extension offers Visual Studio Code developers a chance to try out new and experimental features first, and give their valuable feedback.

You can use the extension with no special signup, but if you're willing we'd love to have you sign up on the form here - just make sure you select the "AI-assisted Development" checkbox - and help us shape the future of AI-assisted developer tools. We encourage you to leave us feedback and suggestions on the issues page - it will help us make these features even better for you.

The extension will be updated over time to add new features, and we will move the best into our main extension. At present there are features for JavaScript/TypeScript/Python users - see below for details.

IntelliCode Completions

Please refer to extension Visual Studio IntelliCode Completions for more details.

API Usage Examples (Python, Typescript/Javascript)

Please refer to extension Visual Studio IntelliCode API Usage Examples for more details.

Date/time formatting by example (TypeScript/JavaScript)

Nobody loves writing date/time format strings. It requires you to poke around in documentation and juggle arcane tokens, all in hopes of getting the exact format you want. Bleh! What if instead, you could simply type an example of the date/time you want (Nov 12th, 1955), and let your dev tools figure out the actual format string for you? That's exactly what date/time formatting by example can do! 🚀

If you're using either Moment.js or Day.js (more libraries coming soon!), then IntelliCode will provide their format method with superpowers. Instead of typing a format string, you can start typing an arbitrary example, and recieve suggested format strings that would support the provided example. This supports dates, times, ordinals, and even escape strings, so feel free to go crazy with your examples!

If you expand the completion list's detail pane, you can see a description of the format string tokens that are being suggested, which can help make it easier to understand the suggestion, without needing to refer to documentation. Additionally, once you've accepted a suggestion, you can hover over the date/time format string and see an example of how it would look, using the current date/time. We hope this E2E authoring experience makes it easy to not only author date/time formats, but also to edit and maintain them in the future.

To get started with date/time formatting by example, check out this sample project, which will walk you through how to use it with both Moment.js and Day.js.