Update release notes and user manual for v0.8.0#632
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Adds documentation for the v0.8.0 release of the DocumentDB for VS Code extension, expanding the user manual with new “Querying” feature guides and publishing the v0.8 release notes/changelog entry.
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- Added new user manual pages for Collection View querying, Query Playground, Interactive Shell, and runtime internals.
- Added v0.8 release notes and linked them from the docs index.
- Added a new 0.8.0 section to
CHANGELOG.md.
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| File | Description |
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| docs/user-manual/query-runtime.md | New “behind the scenes” explanation of the bundled runtime and supporting @documentdb-js/* packages. |
| docs/user-manual/query-playground.md | New end-user guide for .documentdb.js playground authoring, execution, and navigation. |
| docs/user-manual/interactive-shell.md | New end-user guide for the embedded REPL shell, commands, and settings. |
| docs/user-manual/collection-view-querying.md | New guide covering Collection View query editors and autocompletion behavior. |
| docs/release-notes/0.8.md | New v0.8 release notes with screenshots and feature highlights. |
| docs/index.md | Adds “Querying” section to the manual index and links release notes 0.8. |
| CHANGELOG.md | Adds a 0.8.0 changelog entry summarizing features, improvements, fixes, and dependency updates. |
- Fix Context-Sensitive Completions table in collection-view-querying.md: escape pipe characters used as cursor position indicators (| → \|) so they render as literals instead of column separators in GFM tables. Also fix separator row from 3 columns to 2 columns. - Remove leftover <--- stale setting references IMAGE PROMPT: ... --> authoring comment from 0.8 release notes (no longer needed after screenshot was generated).
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This pull request documents the v0.8.0 release of the DocumentDB for VS Code extension, marking a major upgrade that transforms the extension into a comprehensive query development environment. The update introduces context-aware autocompletion, a new Query Playground, an integrated Interactive Shell, and seamless navigation between query surfaces. It also brings improvements to query insights, usability, and dependency updates. The most important changes are summarized below.
Major New Features:
.documentdb.jsfiles allow users to write and execute JavaScript scripts with CodeLens execution, console output, per-file connections, and autocompletion fordb.*chains. No external tools required. [1] [2]Improvements and Fixes:
Documentation Updates:
docs/release-notes/0.8.md, including feature descriptions, screenshots, and usage guidance.Dependency Updates:
fast-uri,fast-xml-builder,basic-ftp,path-to-regexp, and related dependencies to their latest versions. [1] [2]