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What’s New in Visual Studio Online

February 27, 2020 Feb 27, 2020 02/27/20

Allison Buchholtz-Au

Learn what the Visual Studio Team has been working on since our public preview announcement last November. We've got lots of new things from better environment configurations to Visual Studio Code Insiders support and more!

Reminder: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on Feb 24

February 20, 2020 Feb 20, 2020 02/20/20

Jon Galloway

The Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event is just a few days away, starting on Monday, February 24, at 9 AM. We’ve got a great day of content planned. Make sure to “save the date” so you don’t forget over the weekend! https://aka.ms/vs4mac-event

Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac

February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20

Abdullah Hamed

Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

February 13, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 02/13/20

Mark Downie

Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.

Creating .NET Core global tools on macOS

February 12, 2020 Feb 12, 2020 02/12/20

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

One of the really cool aspects about .NET Core is the support for global tools. You can use global tools to simplify common tasks during your development workflow. For example, you can create tools to minify image assets, simplify working with source control, or perform any other task that you can automate with the command line. After ...

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20

Jb Evain

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source

Accessibility Improvements in Visual Studio 2019 for Mac

February 10, 2020 Feb 10, 2020 02/10/20

Václav Vančura

The release of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4.4, includes numerous developments in the color representation of icons, and to warning and error status messages.

Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event speakers and sessions

February 5, 2020 Feb 5, 2020 02/5/20

Jon Galloway

Join this free, virtual event on Feb 24th to find out how to make mobile, web, and games development easy and productive on your Mac. Today we're announcing speakers and our session agenda for the event.

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