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Azure IoT Tools September Update: Azure IoT Edge remote debug and more!

September 30, 2019 Sep 30, 2019 09/30/19

Jun Han

Welcome to the September update of Azure IoT Tools! In this September release, you will see the improved remote debugging experience and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support in Visual Studio. Additionally, an iotedge-compose tool has been released for you to port compose-based apps to Azure IoT Edge. Debug Azure IoT Edge C# ...

Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos

September 26, 2019 Sep 26, 2019 09/26/19

Mads Kristensen

We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next.

Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter

September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19

Sagar Shetty

Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The tool to solve your problems has been here all along!

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Jordan Matthiesen

Today, we’re releasing version 8.3 of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - our .NET IDE, built natively for macOS. This release is predominantly driven by your feedback: delivering a faster and more reliable ASP.NET Core web developer experience, reducing the time between coding and testing Xamarin UI changes, and including a few...

.NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 – Update Now!

September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

Jacqueline Widdis

As we continue to deliver on our mission of any developer, any app, any platform, it's always an exciting time on the Visual Studio team when we get to launch major features. Today we've released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 which contains support for the release of .NET Core 3.0, significant C++ improvements, and great updates for ...

How to debug and profile any EXE with Visual Studio

September 18, 2019 Sep 18, 2019 09/18/19

Andy Sterland

Have you ever needed to debug or profile an executable (.exe file) that you don’t have source for or can’t build? Then the least known Visual Studio project type, the EXE project, is for you!

Java on Visual Studio Code September Update

September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19

Xiaokai He

September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.

Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!

September 9, 2019 Sep 9, 2019 09/9/19

Ruben Rios

Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3. (image) Rather than build everything from scratch, the Visual Studio terminal shares most...

Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!

September 5, 2019 Sep 5, 2019 09/5/19

Mark Wilson-Thomas

With Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 3 we are happy to announce that refactorings can now be enhanced by IntelliCode. IntelliCode spots repetition quickly and suggests other places in your code where you might want to apply that same change, right in your IDE

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available

September 4, 2019 Sep 4, 2019 09/4/19

Jordan Matthiesen

Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.3 Preview 3 is now available, with new web editors, solution-level NuGet package management, and multi-targeting support.

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