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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

Jon GallowayMarch 3, 2021Mar 3, 202103/3/21

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 GroenewegenMarch 3, 2021Mar 3, 202103/3/21

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 ShettyMarch 2, 2021Mar 2, 202103/2/21

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 GaoMarch 2, 2021Mar 2, 202103/2/21

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 WiddisMarch 2, 2021Mar 2, 202103/2/21

Whenever there is a conference such as Microsoft Ignite, there is a tangible excitement throughout our internal teams. We look forward to discovering what new, exciting products, product features, and educational opportunities are available for our customers. Carrying this excitement forward, the Visual Studio team is eager to release Visual ...

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

John MillerFebruary 10, 2021Feb 10, 202102/10/21

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.

Working with large .NET 5 solutions in Visual Studio 2019 16.8

Paul VickFebruary 4, 2021Feb 4, 202102/4/21

With the release of .NET 5, migration of solutions from .NET Framework has increased. In particular, we have started to see very large solutions being moved. To ensure this experience is as good as possible, we have been working on optimizing Visual Studio to handle solutions that contain large numbers of .NET 5 and .NET Core projects. Many of...

New experience for sending us your feedback

Mads KristensenJanuary 25, 2021Jan 25, 202101/25/21

We’ve been working to improve the Developer Community for providing feedback about Visual Studio. Last summer, we updated to a more flexible browser-based mechanism for sending feedback. Now we’re upgrading the rest of the Developer Community website. We’ve listened to your feedback and addressed almost half of all feature requests for ...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 is Available Today

Jacqueline WiddisJanuary 20, 2021Jan 20, 202101/20/21

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 releases today. Highlights of this release include additional functionality in C++, .NET Productivity, XAML Tools, and Accessibility. Check out the new features today!

A more integrated terminal experience

Ruben RiosJanuary 14, 2021Jan 14, 202101/14/21

As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste. Solution Explorer...