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IntelliTrace, method call information, and Edit and Continue
In this blog post I’m going to talk about IntelliTrace’s default configuration and the ability to opt-in to capture method call information. 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 improved UI. If you’re not already familiar with IntelliTrace, that post will help set the context. The following image shows you the IntelliTrace settings which you can access through Tools > Options > IntelliTrace: Let’s go further into how these two options allow you to tailor the IntelliTrace experience to your debu...
Debugging .NET Native Windows Universal Apps
With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine code before being deployed to customer devices using .NET Native. However, the default Debug configuration still uses .NET Core runtime to allow for a fast edit->compile->debug cycle. You always need to test with the actual code generation and runtime technology your application will use when running in production as it can expose bugs you might not be able to find with your development configuration (e.g. race conditi...
MSBuild and Team Foundation Server integration with SonarQube: version 1.0 released
[Updated August 28th 2015]: If you are using Visual Studio Online, you now have a simpler way of analyzing your .Net code leveraging the Build Tasks for SonarQube Analysis Release of MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner 1.0 As you might recall, we announced back in April at the //build conference that we were working with SonarSource to provide a better integration of SonarQube with MSBuild and Team Foundation Server. At that time, SonarSource shipped the result of this initial collaboration, the SonarQube.MSBuild.Runner 0.9, which enabled the analysis of technical debt during a build in TFS 2013. The ALM Rangers a...
Visual Studio Online Process Customization – Update
Back in May, we began explaining our roadmap for process customization on Visual Studio Online (VSO). In this post, I want to share the progress we’ve made and give an update on our overall plans. Customization rollout plan Process customization features will be delivered on the same cadence as the rest of the service, with new functionality lighting up every 2-3 sprints. Our plan is to deliver customization as simple scenarios that offer end-to-end experiences for managing customizations. To make this a bit more concrete, here is our prioritized list of scenarios we plan on delivering: As Aaron men...
Unit Test Generators Extensibility – hats off to our community
It was the early feedback and support from the community that encouraged us to ship IntelliTest and the Create Unit Test method stubs features. That feedback continued as we got clear asks to support (1) the xUnit.net and NUnit test frameworks, and (2) emit tests into existing test projects. Our intent was to make these features extensible, and then work with the community so that such support could be added, and evolved independently. And indeed here they are - extensions for the unit test generators that support these asks, and provided by the teams from NUnit and xUnit.net: With the Create Unit T...
“No such interface supported” in Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10
If you upgraded your Windows 10 machine from an earlier version of Windows 10, and are running Visual Studio 2015, this post describes a workaround to a known issue. If you installed Windows 10 cleanly, or upgraded directly from Windows 7 or 8.x, then there is no issue, feel free to skip this post. Once again, thanks to the efforts of users filing bug reports with the Feedback tools in Visual Studio 2015, we became aware of a previously unknown issue with the Diagnostic Tools window when running on Windows 10 machines that were upgraded from preview Windows 10 builds. This issue will be fixed in an upcoming rele...
Visual Studio 2015 and CodeLens
What a release it has been for CodeLens!!! After it was launched in Visual Studio 2013 to rave reviews, we continued to enhance it and delivered a bunch of features in the VS 2015 wave. Here is a highlights reel. Version control support Git – CodeLens gets its indicator information from your local repo, so it doesn’t matter where your remote is. It could be Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio Online, Github, Gitorius, you name it. TFVC – Both on-premises Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO). We have feature parity across these two version control systems. ...
Code Map: From Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise
When you want to understand specific dependencies in your code, visualize them by creating code maps. You can then navigate these relationships by using the map, which appears next to your code. Code maps can also help you keep track of your place in the code while you work or debug code, so you'll read less code while you learn more about your code's design. They can also help you understand the overall architecture of your Visual Studio solution, and they are very effective in helping you understanding the impact of a change. Between Visual Studio 2013 RTM and Visual Studio 2015 RTM, we have made many improvem...
Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2015 Available on Microsoft Download Center
Visual Studio offers the ability to measure your code’s complexity and maintainability with the Code Metrics window. See the MSDN documentation for more information. In 2011, we introduced a PowerTool that allows you to gather these same measurements from the command-line. This enables straightforward integration of these metrics into the build process. Each new release of Visual Studio requires a corresponding update of the Code Metrics PowerTool. We are pleased to announce that the Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2015 is available on Microsoft Download Center. If you’ve been using one of t...