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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

CodeLens file activity and history now available for C++, JavaScript and SQL files stored in Git

CodeLens makes it easy to explore code changes and other history as you work. It provides a head-up display in Visual Studio editor that shows useful, in-context information about your code. This information, shown as a set of team indicators, tells you when the file was changed, who changed it, and lets you drill down into a vast range of ...

The New Exception Settings Window in Visual Studio 2015

In Visual Studio 2015  we’re pleased to introduce the new Exception Settings tool window for configuring the debugger’s exception settings. In this post I will walk you through the features of this new window. For more information on exception classifications in Visual Studio, see Understanding Exceptions while Debugging with Visual ...

Performance Improvement When Debugging .NET Code With Visual Studio 2015

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to debug an application that runs significantly slower when you’re debugging it than it does when it runs without a debugger attached. Over the years we’ve received numerous complaints along the lines of “when I run my application without the debugger it takes a few seconds to execute a scenario, ...

The Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 CTP6

In November we launched the Visual Studio Emulator for Android and have gotten great positive feedback from you. Since then we’ve continued to work hard to provide a fast, Hyper-V compatible, x86 Android emulator for all of your debugging and testing needs. Today I’m happy to announce that our emulator just got a little sweeter with an ...

Video: Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015

You may have read our blog posts about the Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015, the new IntelliTrace in Visual Studio Ultimate 2015, and the Memory Usage Tool while debugging in Visual Studio 2015 that highlight some of our new features in the Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 release. Yesterday we posted a Channel 9 video ...

Walkthrough of Live Debugging using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 (Text Editor)

In this blog post I am going to walk you through fixing a bug using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015. If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its UI. You can see this walkthrough as a video here (demo start at 4m5s). The application I ...

Diagnostic Tools debugger window in Visual Studio 2015

Note: this post has been updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM This blog post introduces the new Diagnostic Tools window in Visual Studio 2015. First we’ll define what we mean by diagnostic tools, then we’ll introduce the Diagnostic Tools window, and then we’ll dive into the different tools in the window. What are Diagnostic Tools? First...