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August 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

Optimizing toolbars for your workflow

August 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021 08/30/21
Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio is the application I use the most on any given workday, and I consider it my virtual home. It’s where I’m comfortable, productive, excited, frustrated, and happy. I love Visual Studio. Over the years, I’ve learned how to optimize it for my various development workflows—I personalized it. Just like I would with a home in ...

It looks like you’re using Visual Studio. Would you like help?

August 25, 2021 Aug 25, 2021 08/25/21
Misty Hays
We recently asked in an installer survey what you’d find valuable to see while you’re staring at the installer screen during updates/installations in Visual Studio 2022, and y’all said tips and tricks!  Y’all also told us that you want to see tips in the IDE, too—in a Visual Studio start page! Receiving tips from a virtual ...

Revamped Project Properties UI

August 18, 2021 Aug 18, 2021 08/18/21
McKenna Barlow
In Visual Studio 2022 we are improving your experiences around navigating and modifying your project's properties. The world of .NET is in a very different place than it was a few years ago. With a growing diverse user-base and increasingly cross-platform projects, we decided that the Visual Studio project properties were due for a much-needed...

Debugging External Sources with Visual Studio

August 16, 2021 Aug 16, 2021 08/16/21
Harshada Hole
Have you ever needed to debug and step into a code of dependent NuGet or .NET libraries that do not build as part of your solution? Today, debugging through them is not so easy as debugging your projects that are part of your solution. Starting with Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3, we are adding a new "External Sources" node in the Solution Explo

The New JavaScript/TypeScript Experience in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3

August 12, 2021 Aug 12, 2021 08/12/21
Gabrielle Crevecoeur
Today we are excited to announce a new experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers in Visual Studio. We are bringing new tooling to enhance the experience for SPA applications and front-end development. What’s New? With Visual Studio 2022, we really wanted to make our JavaScript & TypeScript experience shine. We spoke with ...

Personalize Your Visual Studio 2022

August 11, 2021 Aug 11, 2021 08/11/21
Grace Taylor
One of Visual Studio’s core goals is to increase your individual and team productivity. And, one of our key focus areas is to make Visual Studio more personalized and flexible, so that you can make the IDE your own. Below, we'll summarize some of the personalization features we’ve shipped in our preview channel or plan to ship soon: ...