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February 2019 - Visual Studio Blog

Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19
Mads Kristensen
Do you want to try the preview of Visual Studio 2019 but worry that your favorite extensions aren’t supported yet? A record number of extensions have already added support for Visual Studio 2019. So there is a good chance your favorite extensions are among them. In fact, more than 850 extensions are currently available, and more are being updated every day.

Break When Value Changes: Data Breakpoints for .NET Core in Visual Studio 2019

February 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 02/12/19
Leslie Richardson
“Why is this value changing unexpectedly and where or when is this occurring?!” This is a question many of us dread asking ourselves, knowing that we'll have to do some tedious trial-and-error debugging attempting to locate the source of this issue.  For C++ developers, the exclusive solution to this problem has been the data breakpoint, a debugging tool that allows you to break when a specific object’s property changes.  Fortunately, data breakpoints are no longer a C++ exclusive because they are now available for .NET Core (3.0 or higher) in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2!