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TASKEXPLORER CODE
v1.3 - Support for Visual Studio Code tasks.v1.5 - Support for Apache Ant tasks (includes provider).v1.6 - Stop execution button for running tasks.v1.6 - Progress icons for running tasks.v1.7 - Two view types - Use one or both of either SideBar View and/or Explorer Tray.
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v1.8 - Support for ant files not named uild.xml, ansicon output colorization fixed.v1.9 - Support for gulp and grunt tasks (includes provider).v1.10 - Support for Makefiles (includes provider).
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v1.11 - N/A - Obsolete Batch Task Provider replaced by v1.12 ScriptProvider.v1.12 - Support for bash, batch, perl, powershell, python, ruby, and nsis scripts (includes provider).v1.13 - Multiple task files of the same type placed within a group node for less clutter in folder level nodes.v1.14 - Support for grunt and gulp task files not located in the project root (closes #12).v1.15 - Support for gradle tasks (includes provider) (closes #15).v1.16 - Add npm management tasks to npm file node context menus.v1.17 - Add 'Run last task' button to titlebar.v1.18 - Add 'Add to excludes' action in task file node context menu.v1.19 - App-Publisher task support for BETA testing.v1.20 - Add support for restarting task (thanks antfu).v1.21 - Add option to keep terminal open after stopping task (closes #51).v1.22 - Major performance enhancements - Task Tree / Task Scanning.v1.23 - Task groupings with dashed task groups (Off by default).v1.24 - Add 'Open Terminal' button to running tasks (closes #23).v1.26 - Add 'Running Task' status bar message (refs #47).v1.27 - Use gulp and ant to find their respective tasks (configurable on/off) (closes #105), Make grouping separator configurable (thanks richarddavenport).v1.28 - Support Makefile aliases (thanks MichaelCurrin).v1.29 - Support multi-level task groupings (closes #129), Support user tasks (closes #127).v1.30 - Configurable default click action (closes #97), Add 'Run with Arguments' command (closes #88), Add 'Run with NoTerminal' command (closes #39) (note that as of VSCode 1.53, there seems to be a bug that prevents running tasks without showing the terminal).v2.0 - All async-await processing, Favorites (closes #101), Clear special task lists.v2.1 - App Publisher changelog pull tasks.Several fixes including long time issue #143. "Should" work with VSCode versions 1.30 and above, but am no longer running tests against VSCode versions below 1.50 as of (v1.28.0). Screenshots by Version Original Explorer Tray