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Update on .NET Hot Reload progress and Visual Studio 2022 Highlights

Dmitry Lyalin October 20, 2021 Oct 20, 2021 10/20/21

.NET Hot Reload progress update. This includes what's new in platform support, user experiences, supported edits and more since our May 2021 blog post. We'll also cover how far we've come with Visual Studio 2022 integration.

IntelliSense for appsettings.json

James Newton-King March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now support IntelliSense for `appsettings.json`. IntelliSense allows you to quickly edit your app's configuration and get immediate feedback on available properties or typos.

Generating HTTP API clients using Visual Studio Connected Services

Jon Galloway February 23, 2021 Feb 23, 2021 02/23/21

We’re continuing our series on building HTTP APIs with .NET 5. In this post, the third in the series, we’ll talk about how Visual Studio Connected Services gives you a convenient way of generating .NET clients for your HTTP APIs so your .NET apps can use the APIs via the Internet.

What’s new in .NET Productivity

Mika Dumont November 18, 2020 Nov 18, 2020 11/18/20

Learn about the latest .NET Productivity features!

Using GitHub Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim Heuer September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20

We've updated our support for developing .NET Core applications in GitHub Codespaces using Visual Studio. Read about the added support we have for editors, testing, debugging, and Azure. Sign up to be invited to the preview for GitHub Codespaces and Visual Studio support!

Debug Your .NET Core Apps in WSL 2 with Visual Studio

Nathan Carlson September 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020 09/17/20

The .NET Core Debugging with WSL 2 – Preview extension lets run and debug your .NET Core apps in WSL 2 from Visual Studio.

.NET CLI Templates in Visual Studio

Tim Heuer September 2, 2020 Sep 2, 2020 09/2/20

If you are a template author for .NET Core templates and have been wanting to show up for Visual Studio users as well with little effort we have enabled a new preview feature for you! Visual Studio now has an option in preview to enable CLI-installed .NET Core templates to display as options in the New Project Dialog experience.

Introducing “Web Live Preview”

Tim Heuer June 11, 2020 Jun 11, 2020 06/11/20

If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Depending on the frameworks or technology you use, there are options to improve this ...

Using Visual Studio Codespaces with .NET Core

Tim Heuer May 21, 2020 May 21, 2020 05/21/20

Learn about how we are enabling .NET Core projects for Codespaces when using Visual Studio 2019.

Configuring Azure Services and emulators using Visual Studio

Angelos Petropoulos May 6, 2020 May 6, 2020 05/6/20

Starting with Visual Studio 16.6 Preview 2 the Connected Services tab offers a new experience called Service Dependencies. You can use it to connect your app to Azure services such as Azure SQL, Storage, Key Vault and many others. Wherever possible local emulation options are also available and more are planned for the future. Add a new...

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