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Visual Studio for Mac 17.4 Preview 2.1 is now available

September 27, 2022 Sep 27, 2022 09/27/22

Iain Holmes

We are pleased to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio for Mac 17.4. This release has been focused on addressing feedback from customers and on improving the overall experience. If you are already using the Visual Studio for Mac Preview release, use the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu to update. If you aren't using...

Now Introducing Arm64 Support for VS Extensions!

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22

Leslie Richardson

Back in June, we announced Arm64 Visual Studio 2022 application, the first version of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors. Now, we’re excited to announce the extensions you write, and use, are supported in Arm64 VS! Adding Arm64 support to your new or existing extension...

DataTable Visualizer Improvements

September 15, 2022 Sep 15, 2022 09/15/22

Harshada Hole

Your favorite DataTable visualizer has now got a makeover with all new improvements coming in 17.4 Preview 2. The DataTable visualizers will now support sorting, filtering, exporting, and theming like IEnumerable visualizer. The DataTable Visualizer allows you to view the contents of a DataTable, DataSet, DataView, or ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2

September 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 09/14/22

Marc Goodner

We have released Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2. In this post we'll share details about features added since Preview 1. Feedback from developers like you during our preview cycle is so important for us to deliver a final product that meets your high expectations. We welcome your feedback in the threads to this post or through Developer ...

It’s finally here. Bicep is in Visual Studio!

September 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 09/14/22

Uche Nkadi

In less than two years, Bicep’s VS Code extension has grown from zero users to more than 15 thousand a month. In addition to the Bicep extension's success, millions of resources are now deployed with Bicep files via Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell. Our incredible community has not only shaped the suite of Bicep features we know and love today...

Adding color to bracket pairs

September 5, 2022 Sep 5, 2022 09/5/22

Mads Kristensen

When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio, it can be hard to figure out which brackets match and which do not. For people with color blindness or other optic maladies, the problem can be even worse. By color-coding bracket pairs, we’re making this much easier. Various IDE’s and editors offer this feature today – ...

What’s New in Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 1

August 16, 2022 Aug 16, 2022 08/16/22

Marc Goodner

We released Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 1 last week alongside the 17.3 generally available release. In this post we'll share details about some of the new capabilities in this preview and the focus of this release. Feedback from developers like you during our preview cycle is so important for us to deliver a final product that meets your ...

Git Line-staging Released!

August 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 08/15/22

Taysser Gherfal

We are excited to announce the release of Line-staging support in Visual Studio 2022. Line-staging, a.k.a. interactive staging, enables you to split your changed lines of code across different commits. Line-staging could also be utilized in reviewing your changes before committing them. Mark your changed lines or sections of code as reviewed ...

Choosing a .NET Memory Profiler in Visual Studio – part 1

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22

Clément Habinshuti

Summary Visual Studio provides two great tools for analyzing and diagnosing memory issues in .NET applications: the Memory Usage profiler and .NET Object Allocation Tracking tool. While both tools are useful, it may not be obvious for new user to know which one to use when. This article aims to clarify what each tool is good for and how to ...