When: When you expect the cast to fail under certain scenarios (as) or if you never expect the cast to fail (direct cast). How-to: Place your cursor on the variable. Press ⌘. (Windows, Linux Ctrl+.) to trigger the Quick Actions and Refactorings menu. Select from the following two options: Select Change to cast. Select Change to as expression. Those familiar with Linux may expect to be able to use the systemctl command to start and stop background services managed by something called systemd. Unfortunately, systemd has overhead and is generally not used in containers as a result. In many cases, there is a command you can run instead (for example, sshd). At Visual Studio Code, we take Extension API compatibility seriously. We give our best effort to avoid breaking API changes, and extension authors could expect published extensions to continue to work. However, this puts great limitation on us: once we introduce an API, we cannot easily change it anymore. Proposed APIs solve the problem for us. Already installed? Use Check for Updates in VS Code. For upcoming features, use the Insiders build. Update 1.141.1: The update addresses these security issues. Update 1.141.2: The update addresses these issues. Release highlights This release makes it easier to manage agent sessions, protect agent workflows, edit columnar text, and work across GitHub Enterprise instances. Clean up worktree. These help menus provide information about what to expect, how to navigate from the input box to other elements, and more. Other new verbosity settings provide information for specific VS Code UI: accessibility.verbosity.keybindingsEditor - when in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor. accessibility.verbosity.notebook - when in a notebook. Welcome to the 1.123 release of Visual Studio Code. This release improves how you work with agents and the integrated browser. Larger context windows: Support for 1M context windows for Anthropic and OpenAI models. Session sync: Automatically sync your chat sessions across machines and search your coding history. Agents window: Open multiple agent sessions side-by-side to compare or review. If you have few sessions, expect a smaller difference. Sessions created before this release are migrated automatically in the background. Compact sessions list Fit more sessions in the sessions list by enabling Compact View in the sessions list view of the Agents Window. Compact rows show the session title at rest and reveal workspace details when you hover over or focus the row. A row expands. Note: The API is still under active development and things will change. Also expect VS Code to ship with reasonable default tools. Authentication getSessions is now getAccounts While we support multi-account authentication providers, something that has always been missing is the ability to get all sessions and take action on a specific session. Welcome to the 1.127 release of Visual Studio Code. This release brings agents that can build and test web apps in the browser, safer per-site browsing, and new ways to keep busy agent sessions organized. Browser tools for agents: Let agents open pages, take screenshots, and click through to validate their own work, now generally available. Per-site browser permissions: Grant pages access to. JSON is a data format that is common in configuration files like package.json or project.json. We also use it extensively in Visual Studio Code for our configuration files. When opening a file that ends with.json, VS Code provides features to make it simpler to write or modify the file's content. IntelliSense and validation For properties and values, both for JSON data with or without a.