Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and...
As we seek to continually improve the Visual Studio Code experience for Java developers, we’d like to share couple new features we’ve just released. Thanks for your great feedback over the year, we’re...
View ArticleBuild Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions
What if the community of extension authors banded together to add powerful features to Visual Studio that made it easier to create extensions? What if those features could be delivered in individually...
View ArticleQ# – a Wish List for the New Year
In previous blog posts you have read about some of the ideas behind Q#, how it came into existence, and its development over the past year. You have read about quantum computing, quantum algorithms and...
View ArticleBuild an Azure IoT application with Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio
What we’ve heard and experienced ourselves is that when building applications, you have a frictionless experience when your code editor and tools are integrated and seamless. Yet when developing IoT...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available
The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available for download. This release contains a number of improvements and additions to the core experience and different development areas, many of...
View ArticleEnhanced in Visual Studio 2019: Search for Objects and Properties in the...
Are you inspecting many variables at once in the Locals window? Tired of constantly scrolling through the Watch window to locate the object you are currently interested in? New to Visual Studio 2019...
View ArticleDebug your live apps running in Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes
We are excited to announce that, in our Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 preview, we are expanding Snapshot Debugger support beyond Azure App Services hosting ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET applications to now...
View ArticleBecome a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series
If you are a web, mobile or games developer and would like to know how to become more productive and efficient using Visual Studio for Mac then we’ve got you covered. Visual Studio for Mac is a...
View ArticleUpdate Visual Studio for Mac for an improved Unity experience!
The past year has been an exciting one for Unity developers. Unity is the leading real-time 3D creation platform. It’s rooted in game development and expanding into other industries, too. Unity...
View ArticleNew learning resources for building ASP.NET Core apps using Visual Studio for...
Visual Studio for Mac has support for the latest C# 8 IntelliSense and code refactoring capabilities across C#, HTML, JS, CSS and Razor files. Along with NuGet package management, source control,...
View ArticleAzure IoT Tools October Update: new experience of sending device-to-cloud...
Welcome to the October update of Azure IoT Tools! In this October release, you will see the totally new experience of sending device-to-cloud messages and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support...
View ArticleGet Started with Visual Studio for Mac
The first step is often the hardest. Do you find yourself with great ideas for the next awesome app, website, or game but you never get around to making that first leap into the unknown? Today, I’ll...
View ArticleAll Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite
There is a lot of developer goodness happening at Ignite this week. Visual Studio Online is available as a public preview for developers to try cloud hosted development environments with your tool of...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2, now available
Today we released the latest preview, Preview 2, of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4. This preview comes with several exciting new features which we would love for you to try out. To get the...
View ArticleAnnouncing Visual Studio Online Public Preview
TL;DR Available beginning at Microsoft’s Ignite conference as a public preview, Visual Studio Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, to...
View ArticleRe-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools
TL;DR: Harnessing the wisdom of the community, Visual Studio IntelliCode is revolutionizing developer productivity. We started with AI-assisted IntelliSense and are now expanding the application of...
View ArticleJoin the Visual Studio for Mac ASP.NET Core Challenge
In September, we shared Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.3 with you – this was our biggest release yet for .NET developers working on a Mac. Today, we’d like to invite you to take part in a new community...
View ArticleRe-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and...
The power of Visual Studio for desktop and mobile development is unmatched in the industry, and we wanted to ensure that the best in class also had the best collaboration story. Live Share is...
View ArticleVisual Studio for Mac: Take Control of Your IDE with Keybindings
The great debates in computing all have one common theme. Whether it is tabs vs. spaces or Vi vs. Emacs, the thread linking all these debates together is keyboard efficiency. The truth is, we spend...
View ArticleAI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase
Visual Studio IntelliCode uses machine learning to offer useful, contextually-rich code completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to learn APIs more quickly and code faster. Although...
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