Microsoft Q# Coding Contest – Winter 2019
Are you new to quantum computing and want to improve your skills? Have you done quantum programming before and looking for a new challenge? Microsoft’s Quantum team is excited to invite you to the...
View ArticleBreak When Value Changes: Data Breakpoints for .NET Core in Visual Studio 2019
“Why is this value changing unexpectedly and where or when is this occurring?!” This is a question many of us dread asking ourselves, knowing that we’ll have to do some tedious trial-and-error...
View ArticleWatch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos
We 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...
View ArticleAzure IoT Tools September Update: Azure IoT Edge remote debug and more!
Welcome to the September update of Azure IoT Tools! In this September release, you will see the improved remote debugging experience and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support in Visual Studio....
View ArticleVisual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor
Over the past year, the Visual Studio for Mac team updated the editors within the IDE to be faster, more fluent and more productive. We did this by building a macOS-native editor interface on top of...
View ArticleIntroducing solution-level NuGet Package Management in Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 comes with many new features as summarized in this blog post. While the entirety of this release was greatly influenced by your feedback, having the ability to...
View ArticleVisual Studio extensibility is better with IntelliCode
Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload presents you with a choice of optional components. And looking at the component list might leave you rather confused. Because how are various...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 2, Fall Sports, and Pumpkin Spice
Fall Colors on Microsoft Campus in Redmond Here at our Redmond campus in the Pacific Northwest, we are cloaked with a brilliant display of fall colors and team members walking around in their...
View ArticleDocument Management Improvements: Vertical document tabs are here!
We are excited to announce that the first preview of Vertical Document Tabs is available as part of Visual Studio version 16.4 Preview 2. Vertical tabs give you the option to better utilize horizontal...
View ArticleDebug JavaScript in Microsoft Edge from Visual Studio
As you may know, the next version of Microsoft Edge will adopt the Chromium open source project to create better web compatibility and less fragmentation of different underlying web platforms. If you...
View ArticleJava on Visual Studio Code October Update
Welcome 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....
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 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 ArticleA better multi-monitor experience with Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2019 now supports per-monitor DPI awareness (PMA) across the IDE. PMA support means the IDE and more importantly, the code you work on appears crisp in any monitor display scale factor...
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