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Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours

Mads KristensenMay 27, 2020May 27, 202005/27/20

A new live broadcast directly from the Visual Studio team (my garage to be exact) is now streaming near you every Thursday morning. It's about everything Visual Studio and you get rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. This is like being in the machine room and you get to see and h

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Keep your IntelliCode completions fresh with our GitHub Action for Team Completions

Caty CaldwellMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

Introducing the Visual Studio IntelliCode GitHub Action for Team Completions, teams can share and automate code completions easily!

Visual Studio IntelliCode automates training a Team Completions model as part of your CI workflow to provide in-line completion suggestions based on your own types in C# and C++.

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Improvements to XAML tooling in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 1

Dmitry LyalinMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

In this blog post we'd like to catch you up on what's new in Visual Studio tooling for XAML developers building WPF, UWP and Xamarin.Forms applications. In this post we'll cover new features shipped in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5, 16.6 and the most recent release 16.7 Preview 1.

Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces

Anthony CangialosiMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Now more than ever, developers are juggling multiple projects at work and at home. New features, bug fixes, PR reviews, & prototypes all compete for time and attention on limited resources. Visual Studio Codespaces provides hosted development environments that allow you to develop entirely in the cloud.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available

Dominic NahousMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is available today and includes an integrated terminal, support for Blazor WebAssembly, updated identity libraries, and support for building and running gRPC projects. Are you ready for the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac? If so, version 8.6 is available for you to download today! With

Releasing Today! Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 & v16.7 Preview 1

Jacqueline WiddisMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 is generally available today along with version 16.7 Preview 1. Check out our newest features in C++, .NET Productivity, Git Integration, and XAML. Plus, sign-up to try VS Codespaces.

Blazor PWA Template in Visual Studio for Mac

Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor

Jon GallowayMay 13, 2020May 13, 202005/13/20

A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a Single Page Application (SPA) that uses modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Blazor WebAssembly (now in preview) includes support for Progressive Web Applications. This blog post walks you through building a basic Blazor PWA application.

Student Spotlight: Outside the Fox thinking outside of the box

Abdullah HamedMay 4, 2020May 4, 202005/4/20

By Noel Painter In 2018 two roommates began a Computer Graphics and Game Development degree at Charles University in Prague with no prior game development experience. They dove headfirst into the world of game development because their first assignment was to create a game, end-to-end, in only 6 months. As a part of this assignment the

Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working

Nik MolnarApril 30, 2020Apr 30, 202004/30/20

With a new name of Visual Studio Codespaces, lowered pricing, a Basic instance type, and many other new features, there's never been a better time to try remote development. Go give it a try!