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Surround selection experiment

May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23
Mads Kristensen
You want to quickly select some text and surround it with quotation marks. So, you select your text and hit the quotation mark key on your keyboard, only to find that the selected text now has been replaced by a single “. What you hoped would happen was that the selected text would be surrounded by an opening and closing quotation mark like ...

Visual Studio UI Refresh

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23
authorsKaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang, Dante Gagne
(image) Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems. ...

Web API development in Visual Studio 2022

May 1, 2023 May 1, 2023 05/1/23
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In Visual Studio 2022 one of the main scenarios for web developers is creating Web APIs with ASP.NET Core. In the latest preview of Visual Studio 2022, 17.6, we have added a number of updates to be more efficient when developing APIs. In this post we will go over a sample scenario of developing a new API from scratch and point out the new ...