Debug 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...
View ArticleMicrosoft 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 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...
View ArticleAzure IoT Tools November Update: standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge...
Welcome to the November update of Azure IoT Tools! In this November release, you will see the new standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development, the support of Vcpkg for IoT Plug and Play...
View Article‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release
Giving Tree on Microsoft Campus Here in Redmond, glimpses of holiday cheer are filling our campus buildings as the season shifts to twinkling lights and frosty temperatures. The Visual Studio team is...
View ArticleWhat’s new in XAML developer tools in Visual Studio 2019 for WPF & UWP
Since the launch of Visual Studio 2019 we’ve released many new features for XAML developers working on WPF or UWP desktop applications. With this week’s release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 and...
View ArticlePinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about the DebuggerDisplay attribute. This is a managed attribute that lets you customize how you view objects in debugging windows by “favoriting” specific...
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...
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