Visual Studio Blog

[Guest post] Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!)

Jon GallowayNovember 25, 2020Nov 25, 202011/25/20

In this guest post, Andrew Stellman explains his approach to teaching C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac by emphasizing exploration, fun, and games. We're announcing a fun coding challenge for beginners, with a chance to win a copy of the new edition of Head First C# book.

GitHub accounts are now integrated into Visual Studio 2019

Ruben RiosNovember 19, 2020Nov 19, 202011/19/20

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2019 now offers a fully integrated GitHub account experience. Starting with version 16.8, you’ll be able to add both GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Server accounts directly from Visual Studio. The new functionality allows you to add and leverage them just as you do with Microsoft accounts, which ...

Announcing the Release of the Git Experience in Visual Studio

Pratik NadagoudaNovember 12, 2020Nov 12, 202011/12/20

We’re excited to announce that our new Git tooling is now the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019, beginning with version 16.8. We've been working on this experience over the last year, iterating based on your feedback to build out key features, enhance performance, and fine tune quality. Above all, we’ve focused on ...

Make your repeated edits faster and more accurate with IntelliCode suggestions

Peter GroenewegenNovember 11, 2020Nov 11, 202011/11/20

IntelliCode Suggestions now provides better tailored repeated edit suggestions and adds the ability to review and apply multiple suggestions at once.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is now available

Jon GallowayNovember 10, 2020Nov 10, 202011/10/20

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.8 is available today! We’ve added support for developing applications with .NET 5 and debugging Blazor WebAssembly applications and included several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 5.0 Preview support.

Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1 Release Today

Jacqueline WiddisNovember 10, 2020Nov 10, 202011/10/20

There are many features landing in this version of Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1. Check out our new Git Integration Features, .NET productivity enhancements, C++20 Library Options, and XAML Data Binding. Try it today!

A more secure GitHub Experience

Ruben RiosNovember 9, 2020Nov 9, 202011/9/20

As the next step in the journey towards a more secure GitHub experience, beginning November 13th, GitHub and Visual Studio will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating with the REST API and will instead require using token-based authentication (e.g., personal access or OAuth), for all authenticated operations for GitHub.com. ...

The Future of Visual Studio Extensions

Leslie RichardsonOctober 28, 2020Oct 28, 202010/28/20

As we continue improving Visual Studio and expanding to the cloud, let's talk about our upcoming plans to improve the ways we write and use extensions.

Get more done with search in Visual Studio

Mads KristensenOctober 26, 2020Oct 26, 202010/26/20

Over the years, the Search feature in Visual Studio has gotten faster and more capable. You might have missed some of the things it can do to help you be more productive and get the most out of Visual Studio. So, let’s take a closer look at how you can use Search in your daily work. I hit Ctrl+Q to use Search every single day and have for...

Cross Platform Managed Memory Dump Debugging

Mark DownieOctober 8, 2020Oct 8, 202010/8/20

With the release of Visual Studio 16.8 Preview 3 you now have the ability to open and analyze managed dumps collected on Linux and use the best in class debugging tools available in Visual Studio.