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May 2019 - Visual Studio Blog

Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19
Varun Gupta
Performance has been a big focus area for Visual Studio 2019, with improvements in many areas. We welcome you to try Visual Studio 2019 either with your own projects or with Roslyn Compilers projects we used as examples above and see how it compares to Visual Studio 2017 for your scenarios. We are always looking for more feedback to know which

Visual Studio Extensibility Day 2019 was a hit

May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 05/29/19
Mads Kristensen
On Friday, May 10th we hosted both internal and external Visual Studio extension authors in the Workshop room in building 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It was a full day event with keynotes and sessions for 60 attendees – half of which attended //build earlier that same week, and half who came just for the Extensibility Day.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 3

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Angel Zhou
The third Preview version of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 is now available. You can download it from VisualStudio.com. Or, if you’re already on the preview channel, just click the notification bell from inside your Visual Studio 2019 Preview installation to update. This latest preview contains a range of additions, including IntelliCode support by default, various C++ productivity enhancements, and .NET tooling updates. We’ve highlighted some notable features below, and you can see a list of all the changes in the Preview release notes.

Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Christos Matskas
Today we’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. This is an important milestone in the iteration of our container tooling in Visual Studio, as we try to empower developers to work better with their containerized applications directly from within the IDE. The current Visual Studio Tools for Containers provide a great getting started experience for developers building new containerized applications, as well as capabilities to containerize an existing application.