Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac
February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.
February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20
Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio
February 13, 2020Feb 13, 202002/13/20Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.
Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS
February 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20One of the really cool aspects about .NET Core is the support for global tools. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control,
Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source
Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
February 10, 2020Feb 10, 202002/10/20The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4.4, includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons, and to warning and error status messages.
Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions
February 5, 2020Feb 5, 202002/5/20Join this free, virtual event on Feb 24th to find out how to make mobile, web, and games development easy and productive on your Mac. Today we're announcing speakers and our session agenda for the event.
What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 for C++, Xamarin, and Azure Tooling Experiences
January 30, 2020Jan 30, 202001/30/20Last week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing many new features and improvements for developers in Visual Studio to help you build better software faster. Please read some highlights of new features and improved developer experiences in this page.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 is available
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.5 Preview 2 is available today and adds auth templates for ASP.NET Core projects, Xamarin enhancements, and UI improvements.
Getting Started with Blazor Server Apps in Visual Studio for Mac
January 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.4 one of the big things that we added support for is developing Blazor Server Applications. In this post I’ll show you how you can get started building new Blazor Server applications with Visual Studio for Mac.
Announcing: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on February 24
January 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20Join us online on February 24th for the Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event!
We’ve been hard at work making Visual Studio for Mac a great environment for building .NET Core applications. Recently, we’ve added .NET Core 3.1 support, ASP.NET Core scaffolding,
Cloud
Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19Announcing Visual Studio Online's public preview! VS Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, or for short-term tasks like reviewing pull requests. You can work with environments from VS Code or the included browser-based editor.
Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!
September 9, 2019Sep 9, 201909/9/19
Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.
Rather than build everything from scratch,
The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2,
Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. This is an important milestone in the iteration of our container tooling in Visual Studio, as we try to empower developers to work better with their containerized applications directly from within the IDE. The current Visual Studio Tools for Containers provide a great getting started experience for developers building new containerized applications, as well as capabilities to containerize an existing application.
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.
Introducing Time Travel Debugging for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019
April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19The Time Travel Debugging (TTD) preview in Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 provides the ability to record a Web app running on a Azure Virtual Machine (VM) and then accurately reconstruct and replay the execution path. TTD integrates with our Snapshot Debugger offering and allows you to rewind and replay each line of code however many times you want, helping you isolate and identify problems that might only occur in production environments.
Visual Studio Subscriptions – everything you need for Azure development
March 19, 2019Mar 19, 201903/19/19If you’re interested in cloud development, or simply want to learn more about new development tools, techniques, and frameworks, Visual Studio Subscription includes a wide range of benefits you can use. The level of benefits you have depends on your subscription type. Learn more in this post.
Debug your live apps running in Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes
January 29, 2019Jan 29, 201901/29/19We are excited to announce that in Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 we are expanding Snapshot Debugger support beyond Azure App Services hosting ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET applications to also include Azure Virtual Machines (VM), Azure Virtual Machine scale sets (VMSS) and Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS).
Build an Azure IoT application with Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio
January 17, 2019Jan 17, 201901/17/19To ensure that the tools you need are close at hand, we’ve updated the Cloud Explorer for Visual Studio extension for IoT developers to enable you to view your Azure IoT Hubs, inspect their properties, and perform other actions from within Visual Studio. Cloud Explorer is installed by default if you selected the Azure Workload when installing Visual Studio.
Cross-Platform
Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source
Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!
September 9, 2019Sep 9, 201909/9/19
Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.
Rather than build everything from scratch,
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2 is now available (and a Preview for 8.3)
July 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2, as well as Preview 1 of version 8.3. We have a lot of new features and updates in both releases that we’d like to share with you! Some of these include the new C#, XAML and AXML editors, support for .NET Core 3.0 Preview and launchsettings.json and many more.
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2
April 24, 2019Apr 24, 201904/24/19Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2 is now available with performance and reliability improvements as well as enhancements to C++, debugging, extensibility, and the IDE experience.
Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019
April 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19Today we’re excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or entirely co-located, we want to make your collaboration experiences more enjoyable and productive with Live Share.
Become a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series
January 30, 2019Jan 30, 201901/30/19Visual Studio for Mac comes packed with powerful, yet hidden features. In this video series, we put together a number of tips and tricks to help you become more productive and efficient with writing code with Visual Studio for Mac. Whether you're creating a new game with Unity or a new web application with .NET Core, these short, roughly 5-minute, videos will help you do it better and faster. Check out the new series now!
Save with the Unity Pro and Visual Studio Professional Bundle
August 16, 2018Aug 16, 201808/16/18The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out, as your team’s size and success grows, so does the need for professional tools.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
August 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in.
New Updates for Azure Development in Visual Studio
May 30, 2018May 30, 201805/30/18With Microsoft Build 2018 in the books, we just released a series of updates to Visual Studio for Azure Development. This improves productivity and security for developers building and diagnosing web applications, containers and microservices. To help you make the most of these new advancements for developing in the Azure cloud,
Data and Analytics
Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code
July 24, 2018Jul 24, 201807/24/18Today at the EuroPython conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we are introducing support for Python in the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as new improvements in editing for Python developers in Visual Studio Code.
AI-assisted IntelliSense for Python
At Microsoft Build 2018,
Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools
June 14, 2018Jun 14, 201806/14/18Microsoft’s teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon.
Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1
March 13, 2018Mar 13, 201803/13/18The top highlights of this Preview include productivity enhancements, better diagnostics, additional C++ development improvements, better management of Android and iOS environments, updated tooling for Universal Windows Platform and .NET Core projects, and an improved update experience. Please note that this is the first set of version 15.7 features; more goodness awaits in the next Preview.
Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture
December 13, 2017Dec 13, 201712/13/17Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9.
For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps.
Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series
December 7, 2017Dec 7, 201712/7/17[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!]
Earlier this week,
Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques, frameworks, tools, and languages emerging all the time.
The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences
November 15, 2017Nov 15, 201711/15/17Whatever the language or platform, developers want the same thing – to create app experiences that are high-quality, intelligent and personalized. Experiences that delight users and keep them engaged. To do that, we need tools that increase our productivity, so that we spend more time on what matters most to our app’s success.
Run book Run! From physical paper to executable online books
October 26, 2017Oct 26, 201710/26/17Have you ever wanted to run the code samples while reading a book? Without having to first download the sample code, its runtime, and configure your environment so that everything is setup the way you need it? What if you could be reading a book,
Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview
October 11, 2017Oct 11, 201710/11/17Today we are releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5. You can either download it, or if you already have Preview installed, you’ll receive a notification that the update is available. This latest preview contains new features, improvements to key fundamentals such as performance and productivity, and other enhancements to address customer feedback. Read the feature highlight summary below, and check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview
Desktop
What’s new in XAML developer tools in Visual Studio 2019 for WPF & UWP
December 4, 2019Dec 4, 201912/4/19If you missed our previous releases or simply have not had a chance to catch-up, this blog post will be the one place where you can see every major improvement we’ve made throughout 2019.
All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19There is a lot of developer goodness happening at Ignite. Visual Studio Online reached public preview for developers to try cloud hosted development environments with your tool of choice. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 3 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2 just released with new productivity features. Have a look.
Windows Desktop Developer Twitch Workshop (March 14, 2019)
March 7, 2019Mar 7, 201903/7/19Today we’d like to announce an upcoming free live streaming workshop on March 14th, 2019 focused on Windows Desktop development for .NET applications using frameworks such as WPF, WinForms and UWP.
Enhanced in Visual Studio 2019: Search for Objects and Properties in the Watch, Autos, and Locals Windows
January 28, 2019Jan 28, 201901/28/19Are 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, you can now find your variables and their properties faster using the new search feature found in the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows!
Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and More
December 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.
Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace
May 24, 2018May 24, 201805/24/18Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.
Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18At Microsoft Build this year we have many exciting announcements - .NET Core 2.1 RC, Future of Windows Desktop Development, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability, Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview, and we introduce Visual Studio IntelliCode.
Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps
April 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP.
Visual Studio at GDC 2018
March 14, 2018Mar 14, 201803/14/18Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event looking to join the growing community of more than half a million monthly active developers building great games with Visual Studio today.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released
March 6, 2018Mar 6, 201803/6/18Today, we released updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. Start your download now while you browse the rest of this post: download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 or Visual Studio for Mac. We’ll trigger the update notification flag in the tools in the coming days.
Team and Development
AI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase
November 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19Visual 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. With our latest release, you can easily share IntelliCode team completions and automate updates via an Azure DevOps task.
Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts
November 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19The 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 reimagining this collaboration story by reducing the barriers to collaboration,
Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19Harnessing 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 artificial intelligence to accelerate learning, radically improve development agility, and increase code quality whole line completions and refactoring.
All Things Developer Tools at Microsoft Ignite
November 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19There is a lot of developer goodness happening at Ignite. Visual Studio Online reached public preview for developers to try cloud hosted development environments with your tool of choice. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview 3 and Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2 just released with new productivity features. Have a look.
Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
September 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The tool to solve your problems has been here all along!
Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!
September 9, 2019Sep 9, 201909/9/19
Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.
Rather than build everything from scratch,
Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community
June 4, 2019Jun 4, 201906/4/19In October 2018, we shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with hundreds of those shipped in Visual Studio. Thank you for making the move and continuing to help us improve the functionality in Visual Studio!
Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
May 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019:
New Azure IoT Edge project targeting different platforms (Linux amd64,
Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. This is an important milestone in the iteration of our container tooling in Visual Studio, as we try to empower developers to work better with their containerized applications directly from within the IDE. The current Visual Studio Tools for Containers provide a great getting started experience for developers building new containerized applications, as well as capabilities to containerize an existing application.
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.
Extensibility
Visual Studio extensibility is better with IntelliCode
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload presents you with a choice of optional components. Looking at the list might leave you rather confused, because how are various C++ components and the Class Designer especially relevant to writing extension? And where is IntelliCode?
Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos
September 26, 2019Sep 26, 201909/26/19We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next.
The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2,
Async loaded .NET projects may impact Visual Studio extensions
August 8, 2019Aug 8, 201908/8/19In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, the CSProj project system (C#/VB non-SDK style) introduces a new way of loading called Partial Load Mode (PLM). After the solution loads, the project system is doing design time builds in the background, leaving the UI responsive and interactive. Extensions may need to adjust for this behavior change.
Theming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier
August 1, 2019Aug 1, 201908/1/19Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes.
Checklist for writing great Visual Studio extensions
July 11, 2019Jul 11, 201907/11/19Great Visual Studio extensions share a few key features that sets them apart from the rest. They look and feel well crafted, are performant and reliable, do what they advertise to perfection, and blend in naturally among Visual Studio’s own features.
Visual Studio tips and tricks
June 25, 2019Jun 25, 201906/25/19Whether you are new or have been using Visual Studio for years, there are a bunch of tips and tricks that can make you more productive. We’ve been sharing tips on Twitter using the #vstip hashtag for a while, and this is a collection of the best ones so far.
Create a private gallery for self-hosted Visual Studio extensions
June 11, 2019Jun 11, 201906/11/19Most Visual Studio extension authors publish their extensions to the public Marketplace to allow everyone to install them and benefit from the large and open ecosystem. However, some companies create extensions for internal use only. A private gallery allows them to distribute these extensions with ease.
Visual Studio Extensibility Day 2019 was a hit
May 29, 2019May 29, 201905/29/19On Friday, May 10th we hosted both internal and external Visual Studio extension authors in the Workshop room in building 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It was a full day event with keynotes and sessions for 60 attendees – half of which attended //build earlier that same week, and half who came just for the Extensibility Day.
Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement
May 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019:
New Azure IoT Edge project targeting different platforms (Linux amd64,
Gaming
Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac
February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.
Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source
What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 for C++, Xamarin, and Azure Tooling Experiences
January 30, 2020Jan 30, 202001/30/20Last week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing many new features and improvements for developers in Visual Studio to help you build better software faster. Please read some highlights of new features and improved developer experiences in this page.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.3 Preview 3 is now available, with new web editors, solution-level NuGet package management, and multi-targeting support.
Make games with Visual Studio for Mac and Unity
August 21, 2019Aug 21, 201908/21/19Making games can be rewarding and a lot of fun. If you’d like to learn more about game development follow along by making your first game using Visual Studio for Mac, Unity, and C#.
Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6
August 20, 2018Aug 20, 201808/20/18For this release of Visual Studio for Mac, we’ve focused our energy on improving product reliability, creating a better code editing experience, and making the performance second to none. We’re also exited to announce full support for Azure functions – it’s now possible to create, edit, configure, and publish your Function from within the IDE.
Save with the Unity Pro and Visual Studio Professional Bundle
August 16, 2018Aug 16, 201808/16/18The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out, as your team’s size and success grows, so does the need for professional tools.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
August 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in.
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
July 31, 2018Jul 31, 201807/31/18Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.
Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together
May 10, 2018May 10, 201805/10/18The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It’s the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can read the full blog post by Unity for all the details on what’s new in the 2018.1 release.
Java
Java on Visual Studio Code October Update
October 18, 2019Oct 18, 201910/18/19Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.
Java on Visual Studio Code September Update
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.
Java on Visual Studio Code July Update
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks.
Refactoring
Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method
After performing extract to variable/constant/method refactoring,
Java on Visual Studio Code June Update
June 24, 2019Jun 24, 201906/24/19Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks.
Announcing the Visual Studio Code Installer for Java
June 14, 2019Jun 14, 201906/14/19It’s been almost 3 years since the first Java language server was developed during a hackathon in a small conference room at Microsoft’s Zurich office with people from Red Hat, IBM, Codenvy and Microsoft, which later became one of the most popular extensions for Visual Studio Code with more than 2.7 million installations.
Java on Visual Studio Code April Update
May 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We’d also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle.
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We’d like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including
Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates
Performance improvements
Standalone file supports
Multiple source folders support
Easy launch for multi-main-class projects
Hide temporary files
Bulk generate getters and setters
Test configuration and report update
Including IntelliCode to Java Extension Pack
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and More
December 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.
Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code
December 5, 2018Dec 5, 201812/5/18At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference.
IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive AI-assisted IntelliSense recommendations even better.
AI-assisted coding comes to Java with Visual Studio IntelliCode
November 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like AI-assisted IntelliSense and statement completion, code formatting, and style rule inference. During SpringOne 2018, we announced that we will bring those productivity boosters to Java developers and now we’re happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java in the IntelliCode Extension for Visual Studio Code.
Mobile
What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 for C++, Xamarin, and Azure Tooling Experiences
January 30, 2020Jan 30, 202001/30/20Last week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing many new features and improvements for developers in Visual Studio to help you build better software faster. Please read some highlights of new features and improved developer experiences in this page.
‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release
December 3, 2019Dec 3, 201912/3/19Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 is available today. Highlights of the release include: better GitHub integration, Vertical Tabs, Container Tools, Xamarin Hot Reload, C++ Tooling, .NET Productivity, Pinnable Property Tabs, and much more.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.3 Preview 3 is now available, with new web editors, solution-level NuGet package management, and multi-targeting support.
Become a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series
January 30, 2019Jan 30, 201901/30/19Visual Studio for Mac comes packed with powerful, yet hidden features. In this video series, we put together a number of tips and tricks to help you become more productive and efficient with writing code with Visual Studio for Mac. Whether you're creating a new game with Unity or a new web application with .NET Core, these short, roughly 5-minute, videos will help you do it better and faster. Check out the new series now!
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
August 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in.
Hyper-V Android emulator support
May 8, 2018May 8, 201805/8/18Today, at Build 2018, we announced a preview of the Google Android emulator that’s compatible with Hyper-V, available on the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. This enables developers with Hyper-V enabled on their machines to use a hardware accelerated Android emulator,
Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18At Microsoft Build this year we have many exciting announcements - .NET Core 2.1 RC, Future of Windows Desktop Development, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability, Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview, and we introduce Visual Studio IntelliCode.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon.
Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we’re excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5.
Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps
April 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP.
Open Source
Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source
Debug JavaScript in Microsoft Edge from Visual Studio
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19You can now debug JavaScript running in the next version of Microsoft Edge, built with Chromium, directly from Visual Studio! In this post, we walk through creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using React.js and show you how to set breakpoints and debug your client-side JavaScript code running in Edge with Visual Studio.
Java on Visual Studio Code September Update
September 16, 2019Sep 16, 201909/16/19September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.
Java on Visual Studio Code July Update
July 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code!
In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks.
Refactoring
Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method
After performing extract to variable/constant/method refactoring,
Azure IoT Tools help you connect to Azure IoT Hub in 1 minute in Visual Studio Code
June 12, 2019Jun 12, 201906/12/19When doing development for Azure IoT solutions, developers may want to test and debug their cloud solution with a real device. However, not every developer has a real device in their hand. With the Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code, you can easily use Visual Studio Code as a device simulator to quickly interact with Azure IoT Hub.
Java on Visual Studio Code April Update
May 1, 2019May 1, 201905/1/19Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We’d also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle.
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code
February 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We’d like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including
Dependency auto-completion and more Maven updates
Performance improvements
Standalone file supports
Multiple source folders support
Easy launch for multi-main-class projects
Hide temporary files
Bulk generate getters and setters
Test configuration and report update
Including IntelliCode to Java Extension Pack
Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code.
Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools
June 8, 2018Jun 8, 201806/8/18Kubernetes is an open source system that is quickly emerging as the preferred container orchestration system for applications of all shapes and sizes, simplifying the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers. It runs in a variety of environments, including on premises as well as in cloud providers,
Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18At Microsoft Build this year we have many exciting announcements - .NET Core 2.1 RC, Future of Windows Desktop Development, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability, Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview, and we introduce Visual Studio IntelliCode.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1
May 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon.
Visual Studio
Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac
February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.
Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio
February 13, 2020Feb 13, 202002/13/20Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.
Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS
February 12, 2020Feb 12, 202002/12/20One of the really cool aspects about .NET Core is the support for global tools. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control,
Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source
February 11, 2020Feb 11, 202002/11/20Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source
Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
February 10, 2020Feb 10, 202002/10/20The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4.4, includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons, and to warning and error status messages.
Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions
February 5, 2020Feb 5, 202002/5/20Join this free, virtual event on Feb 24th to find out how to make mobile, web, and games development easy and productive on your Mac. Today we're announcing speakers and our session agenda for the event.
What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 for C++, Xamarin, and Azure Tooling Experiences
January 30, 2020Jan 30, 202001/30/20Last week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 was released, bringing many new features and improvements for developers in Visual Studio to help you build better software faster. Please read some highlights of new features and improved developer experiences in this page.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 is available
January 29, 2020Jan 29, 202001/29/20Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.5 Preview 2 is available today and adds auth templates for ASP.NET Core projects, Xamarin enhancements, and UI improvements.
Getting Started with Blazor Server Apps in Visual Studio for Mac
January 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.4 one of the big things that we added support for is developing Blazor Server Applications. In this post I’ll show you how you can get started building new Blazor Server applications with Visual Studio for Mac.
Announcing: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on February 24
January 15, 2020Jan 15, 202001/15/20Join us online on February 24th for the Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event!
We’ve been hard at work making Visual Studio for Mac a great environment for building .NET Core applications. Recently, we’ve added .NET Core 3.1 support, ASP.NET Core scaffolding,
Web
Getting Started with Blazor Server Apps in Visual Studio for Mac
January 22, 2020Jan 22, 202001/22/20In Visual Studio 2019 for Mac v8.4 one of the big things that we added support for is developing Blazor Server Applications. In this post I’ll show you how you can get started building new Blazor Server applications with Visual Studio for Mac.
Debug JavaScript in Microsoft Edge from Visual Studio
October 16, 2019Oct 16, 201910/16/19You can now debug JavaScript running in the next version of Microsoft Edge, built with Chromium, directly from Visual Studio! In this post, we walk through creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using React.js and show you how to set breakpoints and debug your client-side JavaScript code running in Edge with Visual Studio.
Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!
September 9, 2019Sep 9, 201909/9/19
Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3.
Rather than build everything from scratch,
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.3 Preview 3 is now available, with new web editors, solution-level NuGet package management, and multi-targeting support.
The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio
August 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2,
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2 is now available (and a Preview for 8.3)
July 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19Today we are announcing the release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.2, as well as Preview 1 of version 8.3. We have a lot of new features and updates in both releases that we’d like to share with you! Some of these include the new C#, XAML and AXML editors, support for .NET Core 3.0 Preview and launchsettings.json and many more.
Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger
July 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.
Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere
May 6, 2019May 6, 201905/6/19Today we’re excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.
Introducing Time Travel Debugging for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019
April 3, 2019Apr 3, 201904/3/19The Time Travel Debugging (TTD) preview in Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 provides the ability to record a Web app running on a Azure Virtual Machine (VM) and then accurately reconstruct and replay the execution path. TTD integrates with our Snapshot Debugger offering and allows you to rewind and replay each line of code however many times you want, helping you isolate and identify problems that might only occur in production environments.
Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019
April 2, 2019Apr 2, 201904/2/19Today we’re excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or entirely co-located, we want to make your collaboration experiences more enjoyable and productive with Live Share.
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