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Apr 6, 2016
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New and updated DevLabs extensions in the Visual Studio Team Services Marketplace

Willy-P. Schaub

Microsoft DevLabs is an outlet for experiments from Microsoft, experiments that represent some of the latest ideas around developer tools. Solutions in this category are designed for broad usage, and you are encouraged to use and provide feedback on them; however, these extensions are not supported nor are any commitments made as to their longevity...

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Mar 31, 2016
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Using the New Exception Helper in Visual Studio 2017

Aaron Hallberg

Dealing with exceptions is a common developer problem no matter your technology or level of expertise. It can be a frustrating experience figuring out why exceptions are causing problems in your code. When you are debugging an exception in Visual Studio, we want to lessen that frustration by providing you with relevant exception information to help...

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Mar 31, 2016
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Break on Exceptions Thrown only from Specific Modules in Visual Studio 2017

Aaron Hallberg

In Visual Studio 2015 we introduced the new Exception Settings window which provides you a quick way to configure the debugger to break when exceptions are thrown. As part of that window revamp, we heard that simply filtering by exception type is not always good enough, you need finer grained control over when the debugger breaks on thrown exceptio...

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Mar 31, 2016
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What’s new in Git for Windows 2.8?

Johannes Schindelin

Download Git for Windows from its home page. Authentication is now a breeze More and more Git hosting sites support multi-factor authentication or security tokens. With the inclusion of the Git Credential Manager, Git for Windows now offers a user-friendly way to support such authentication methods. Git for Windows closely follows Git Credential ...

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Mar 30, 2016
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Updates for Debugging Installed App Packages in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Aaron Hallberg

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, we added support to the Debug Installed App Package dialog for: Note that attach to process is not currently supported for Xbox or HoloLens, but we hope to add it in a future release. Debugging Installed App Packages Open the Debug Installed App Package dialog from Debug -> Other Debug Targets -...

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Mar 15, 2016
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Squash: A Whole New Way to Merge Pull Requests

Matthew Mitrik (MS)

Are you the type of developer that loves to keep your repos neat and tidy?  Are you a fan of interactive rebase and fixing up your commits until they're just right?  Do you wish you had an alternative to --no-ff merges when completing your pull request?  In the March 3rd release of Visual Studio Team Services, a new option was added to the PR merge...

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Mar 10, 2016
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.NET Core Debugging in VS Code

Andrew B Hall - MSFT

The C# extension for Visual Studio Code offers powerful editing and debugging support for .NET Core applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux, including: Getting started To get started you will need to do a few things (see our GitHub page for complete instructions) Working with Console apps If you are working with a console application, b...

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Mar 2, 2016
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Linking Work Items to Git Branches, Commits, and Pull Requests

Matthew Mitrik (MS)

If you're a developer working on a team that uses Git, you're probably using some form of topic branching to isolate your work.  If you're using any of the Agile tools in Visual Studio Team Services, you probably also have a bug, task, or user story that's tracking your development work.  Until recently, the best way to keep these items related was...

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Feb 12, 2016
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Using the DebuggerNonUserCode Attribute in Visual Studio 2015

Aaron Hallberg

You can add the DebuggerNonUserCode attribute to your application as a handy way to tell the debugger that you don’t want to debug into specific sections of code. If you haven’t used this attribute previously, this blog post gives a summary of how you can use it as part of your debugging workflow. If you currently use this attribute, you may hav...

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Feb 12, 2016
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Quickly navigate with keyboard

Ewald Hofman (MSFT)

Shortcuts have been in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) for a long time, but not many keyboard shortcuts were available and it was not discoverable. Since a few deployments we have introduced more shortcuts using the MouseTrap open source library. You can now type in keys whenever you are not focused on an inputbo...

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