Visual Studio Blog

A unit of profiling makes the allocations go away

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23

Nik Karpinsky

In Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 2 we have updated unit test profiling, allowing you to use any of the available tools in the performance profiler – not just the instrumentation tool. With this change, it’s easy to quickly profile small units of work in isolation, make changes, and then remeasure and validate the impact of the change. ...

New React TypeScript SPA Templates and More

September 21, 2023 Sep 21, 2023 09/21/23

Jiayan Chen

We have made the latest React TypeScript SPA Templates available in our latest preview. If you are developing React TypeScript Web application with ASP.NET as backend in Visual Studio, go ahead and try the new template! All the Visual Studio React and Vue templates using the JavaScript SDK are now using Vite, so you would get the benefit of a ...

IntelliTest simplifies writing and maintaining unit tests

September 20, 2023 Sep 20, 2023 09/20/23

Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

Writing a suite of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, IntelliTest addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the cost, and now in Preview, this Enterprise feature supports projects that ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived!

September 14, 2023 Sep 14, 2023 09/14/23

Adrian Murphy

 We hope everyone enjoyed all the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio’s next version, and now we’re back with more! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your productivity, debug your code, as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. Browse this comprehensive ...

Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices

September 13, 2023 Sep 13, 2023 09/13/23

Christine Ruana

In today’s world, it is imperative for IT administrators and organizations to manage security effectively and embrace security best practices. One common best practice involves implementing appropriate permission levels to ensure that only authorized accounts can access sensitive data and functionality. Another widely accepted best practice ...

Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23

Harshada Hole

Visual Studio has been supporting external sources debugging and decompilation for some time now. However, with the release of Visual Studio 17.7, the debugger took a significant leap forward by introducing Auto-decompilation for .NET libraries making the external code debugging in Visual Studio much more streamlined and effortless. Its ...

Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23

Leah Tran

The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId...

Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23

Anthony Cangialosi

Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple. While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to ...

Learn about new and old VS tools on Visual Studio Toolbox!

August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23

Leslie Richardson

Do you like watching videos to learn about new and existing Visual Studio features?  Then you should check out the Visual Studio Toolbox show!  Available on both Learn and YouTube, Visual Studio Toolbox is a show that helps you become a more productive developer in VS by highlighting tooling within the IDE and the wider Visual Studio ...

Working with images just got easier in Visual Studio

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Mads Kristensen

Any web, desktop, or mobile developer works with images often. You reference them from C#, HTML, XAML, CSS, C++, TypeScript, and even in code comments. Some images are local, and some exist online or on network shares, while others only exist as base64 encoded strings. We refer to them in numerous ways in code, but always as string values that...