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Aug 10, 2021
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Visual Studio 2019 v16.11 is Available Now!

Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.11 GA. This release improves upon the Git tooling experience in Visual Studio, enables Hot Reload for .NET applications, adds convenient links to the help menu, and upgrades LLVM tools to LLVM 12. For full details, see the Visual Studio 2019 release notes. Servicing Baselines Th...

Aug 5, 2021
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Load Only the Projects You Need with Solution Filters

Kira Weiss

You, like many other developers, may work in very large codebases that contain hundreds or thousands of projects in a single Visual Studio solution. However, you may only work with a few of those projects and their dependencies. Our Visual Studio team has seen multiple approaches that developers use to only load and work in the projects that they n...

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Jul 29, 2021
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Speed up your .NET and C++ development with Hot Reload in Visual Studio 2022

Dmitry Lyalin

With the recent release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 we’d like to use this blog post to dive deeper into the brand-new Hot Reload experience which works for both managed .NET and newly supported native C++ apps. With Hot Reload our goal is to save you as many app restarts between edits as possible, making you more productive by reducing the t...

Jul 21, 2021
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Join the Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Private Preview

Jordan Matthiesen

Today we’re inviting you to try out Visual Studio 2022 for Mac as we share our first private preview release. This is the first release of our .NET IDE with a refreshed, fully native macOS UI. We’d love for you to download it, try it out, and share your feedback to help us shape the next major release of Visual Studio for Mac. The Visual Stu...

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Jul 16, 2021
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Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In this post we have introduced, and demonstrated, the new Web Forms Designer and Web Live Preview that is built into Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2. We are very excited to bring a new designer for Web Forms. We would love for you to try out this new designer experience and let us know how it’s working for you with your own projects and solution

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Jul 15, 2021
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Debug code with force run to cursor

Harshada Hole

Starting Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 you can use "Force Run To Cursor". It is like "Run To Cursor," but you can keep your breakpoints and the debugger will skip over them until it reaches the line of code with the cursor. It will also skip any of the first-chance exceptions break conditions that may occur.

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Jul 14, 2021
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Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 is out!

Justin Johnson

We're excited to announce the second preview release of Visual Studio 2022! Preview 1 was the first-ever 64-bit Visual Studio, delivering improved scalability. Starting with Preview 2, we’re focusing on delivering new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog we’re going ...

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Jun 30, 2021
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.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance

Nik Karpinsky

With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up your app...

Jun 29, 2021
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Let’s make Visual Studio even more accessible together.

Dante Gagne

Visual Studio wants to be the most accessible IDE available today. We've made huge strides, but we want to do even more. In this post, we'll talk about some of the new innovations we're exploring and we'd love your feedback. We want to make sure we're making the features that folks will love and we'd love to hear from you.

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Jun 28, 2021
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Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

John Miller

If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.

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