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August 2020 - Visual Studio Blog

Overhauling the Visual Studio feedback system

August 25, 2020 Aug 25, 2020 08/25/20
Mads Kristensen
During the summer, we refreshed the experience for sending feedback on Visual Studio. It marks the first in a long row of changes coming to the Visual Studio feedback system. The result will be a more engaging experience that is also faster and more user friendly. The feedback tool helps us fix more than five hundred customer-reported ...

The making of Visual Studio IntelliCode’s first deep learning model: a research journey

August 24, 2020 Aug 24, 2020 08/24/20
Shengyu Fu
After leveraging technologies like Azure Machine Learning and ONNX Runtime, IntelliCode has successfully shipped the first deep learning model for all the IntelliCode Python users in Visual Studio Code. This blogpost gives a detailed account of the journey from research to model deployment.

Live coding Visual Studio extensions

August 17, 2020 Aug 17, 2020 08/17/20
Mads Kristensen
Writing extension for Visual Studio can be a challenging affair. It also happens to be extremely satisfying and a lot of fun. But even with our getting-started guidance, there is still a lot to learn, explore, and keeping up with. After 10 years and over 130 extensions, I still learn something new every time I write an extension. So why not ...

Use Visual Studio in Presentation Mode

August 10, 2020 Aug 10, 2020 08/10/20
Mads Kristensen
Have you ever seen a presentation using Visual Studio, but had a hard time seeing the too-small fonts in the editor, Solution Explorer and menu system? How about all the custom extensions and themes the presenter used, making it harder to figure out what exactly was going on? Perhaps you were the presenter? Here’s how Visual Studio ...

Angular Language Service for Visual Studio   

August 5, 2020 Aug 5, 2020 08/5/20
Gabrielle Crevecoeur
Great news everyone: The Angular Language Service is coming to Visual Studio! For those who don't know, the Angular team has done a lot of great work on powering up the editing experience for Angular using something called the Angular Language Service. It lays the foundation to provide things like auto-completion, rename, and more across ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is now available

August 5, 2020 Aug 5, 2020 08/5/20
Jon Galloway
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.7 is available today and includes support for gRPC / OpenAPI client generation and improved unit testing integration. Additionally, it includes several improvements for Xamarin developers, including Xamarin.Forms 4.8 Support. This release also includes initial support for macOS Big Sur, with the exception ...