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What’s new with GitHub Actions tooling in Visual Studio

Angelos Petropoulos March 8, 2021 Mar 8, 2021 03/8/21

In a previous post, using GitHub Actions in Visual Studio is as easy as right-click and Publish, we announced the efforts we added to Visual Studio extending our Publish experiences to introduce and assist customers into a repeatable, predictable continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) environment using GitHub Actions. Our Publish ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.9 is now available

Jon Galloway March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

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 Groenewegen March 3, 2021 Mar 3, 2021 03/3/21

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 Shetty March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

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 Gao March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

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 Widdis March 2, 2021 Mar 2, 2021 03/2/21

Our team is eager to release Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 and v16.10 Preview 1. These include new features from our C++, .NET Productivity, XAML tooling, Address Sanitizer, and IntelliCode teams.

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

John Miller February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21

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 Vick February 4, 2021 Feb 4, 2021 02/4/21

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 Kristensen January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21

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 Widdis January 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021 01/20/21

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!