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Achievement Unlocked: Visual Studio for Mac ASP.NET Core Challenge Completed

December 17, 2019 Dec 17, 2019 12/17/19

Jordan Matthiesen

Last month, we kicked-off a challenge for our developer community to build a solution using ASP.NET Core and the new .NET Core features in Visual Studio for Mac. In this post, we share the results, and complete the challenge.

Modernizing Find in Files

December 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019 12/12/19

Dante Gagne

Find in Files is one of the most commonly used features in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 preview 1, we've given it the first round of improvements to make it faster and look more in line with the overall Visual Studio look and feel. This post will walk through the improvements and help developers get the most out of it.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4 is now available

December 11, 2019 Dec 11, 2019 12/11/19

Dominic Nahous

Today, we released Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 4. This preview version of Visual Studio for Mac brings support for the latest stable version of .NET Core, Scaffolding support for ASP.NET Core projects, and additional improvements to overall product accessibility. Developers using Xamarin Pair to Mac should also look at the ...

Pinnable Properties: Debug & Display Managed Objects YOUR Way

December 5, 2019 Dec 5, 2019 12/5/19

Leslie Richardson

Want to quickly identify objects by more than just their type while debugging? You can now pin object properties to the top of your debugger displays using the new Pinnable Properties tool in Visual Studio 2019 16.4!

What’s new in XAML developer tools in Visual Studio 2019 for WPF & UWP

December 4, 2019 Dec 4, 2019 12/4/19

Dmitry Lyalin

If you missed our previous releases or simply have not had a chance to catch-up, this blog post will be the one place where you can see every major improvement we’ve made throughout 2019.

‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release

December 3, 2019 Dec 3, 2019 12/3/19

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 is available today. Highlights of the release include: better GitHub integration, Vertical Tabs, Container Tools, Xamarin Hot Reload, C++ Tooling, .NET Productivity, Pinnable Property Tabs, and much more.

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