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Introducing Visual Studio Administrator Updates

Christine Ruana April 8, 2021 Apr 8, 2021 04/8/21

During the month of April 2021, Visual Studio will start publishing administrator updates to Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 via Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and the Microsoft Update Catalog. Enterprises will be able to then use standard deployment tools like Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager to easily roll out these...

Performance Improvements in NuGet

Nikolche Kolev April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21

With each new release of Visual Studio comes a plethora of performance improvements when restoring NuGet packages, managing project dependencies, and browsing for the next great package to include in your solution.

Angular Language Service for Visual Studio Update

Gabrielle Crevecoeur March 30, 2021 Mar 30, 2021 03/30/21

Last August, the JavaScript/TypeScript tools team released the Angular Language Service for Visual Studio customers. We wanted to appeal to the many ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core users that are building their front-end projects with Angular. Though there was a lot of praise around this extension, the experience was not so great for all users...

What’s new with GitHub Actions tooling in Visual Studio

Angelos Petropoulos March 8, 2021 Mar 8, 2021 03/8/21

In a previous post, using GitHub Actions in Visual Studio is as easy as right-click and Publish, we announced the efforts we added to Visual Studio extending our Publish experiences to introduce and assist customers into a repeatable, predictable continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) environment using GitHub Actions. Our Publish ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

Jon Galloway March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

We're excited to announce that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is available for you to download today. This release includes support for .NET 6 Preview 1, testing support for Unity applications, a preview of a new Quick Actions and Refactorings dialog, solution filter (.slnf file) support, and a new XML editor.

Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list

Peter Groenewegen March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

As a developer you make repetitive changes to your code all the time. In many cases you don't even realize that you are doing a repetitive task or that Visual Studio IntelliCode suggestions can help you. IntelliCode suggestions can already do the edit and find other location where the same edit applies, making your life easier!

New Dynamic Instrumentation Profiling for .NET

Sagar Shetty March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

With the release of version 16.9 of Visual Studio, instrumentation profiling in Visual Studio just got better. Introducing our new dynamic instrumentation tool. This tool shows the exact number of times your functions are called and is faster than our previous static instrumentation tool. It also supports .NET Core instrumentation without...

Intelligent Visual Studio Search Service

Anne Gao March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

In v16.9 Visual Studio release, we introduce the AI-powered Visual Studio Search service, which is integrated into the shortcut Ctrl+Q for intelligent Visual Studio feature searches. This blog post introduces the system architecture in high level details, including the core Azure services that we built and leveraged.

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1 are Available Today!

Jacqueline Widdis March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Our team is eager to release Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. These include new features from our C++, .NET Productivity, XAML tooling, Address Sanitizer, and IntelliCode teams.

[Guest Post] Better refactoring for Unity projects using .NET analyzers

John Miller February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21

In this guest post, Visual Studio Tools for Unity intern Shreya Pandit shows how she created custom analyzers for Unity, and how you can get involved with the open source project as well.