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September 2020 - Visual Studio Blog

Using GitHub Actions in Visual Studio is as easy as right-click and Publish

September 22, 2020 Sep 22, 2020 09/22/20
Angelos Petropoulos
Download the latest preview version of Visual Studio and try out the new ability to setup CI/CD to Azure for projects that use GitHub to host your source repository.  With VS 16.8 Preview 3.1, for this feature to show up in Publish dialog, you need to go to Tools-Options-Environment-Preview Features and check the “GitHub ...

Bridge to Kubernetes GA

September 21, 2020 Sep 21, 2020 09/21/20
Nick Greenfield
We are super excited to announce General Availability of Bridge to Kubernetes.  Formerly known as Local Process with Kubernetes, Bridge to Kubernetes is an iterative development tool offered in Visual Studio and VS Code that allows developers to write, test and debug microservice code on their development workstations while ...

Disassembly improvements for optimized managed debugging

September 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020 09/14/20
Mark Downie
If you are focused on squeezing out the last bits of performance for your .NET service or application, you might choose to take advantage of JIT compiler optimizations. However, debugging optimized code can be a challenge. In this blog I’ll show you how the Disassembly Window can help you debug optimized code.