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September 2023 - Visual Studio Blog

Now Streaming: The Visual Studio ‘Tea & Technology’ Miniseries

September 27, 2023 Sep 27, 2023 09/27/23
Jim Harrer
(image) 2023 Visual Studio Miniseries: Tea & Technology The Visual Studio team is full of stories and insights, and we knew it was time to share them. So, we picked up our cameras and went on a special tour of Microsoft’s iconic Redmond Campus. Our goal? To offer you a snapshot—an insider's look at just a few of the many people who...

A unit of profiling makes the allocations go away

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23
Nik Karpinsky
In Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 2 we have updated unit test profiling, allowing you to use any of the available tools in the performance profiler – not just the instrumentation tool. With this change, it’s easy to quickly profile small units of work in isolation, make changes, and then remeasure and validate the impact of the change. ...

New React TypeScript SPA Templates and More

September 21, 2023 Sep 21, 2023 09/21/23
Jiayan Chen
We have made the latest React TypeScript SPA Templates available in our latest preview. If you are developing React TypeScript Web application with ASP.NET as backend in Visual Studio, go ahead and try the new template! All the Visual Studio React and Vue templates using the JavaScript SDK are now using Vite, so you would get the benefit of a ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived!

September 14, 2023 Sep 14, 2023 09/14/23
Adrian Murphy
We hope everyone enjoyed all the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio’s next version, and now we’re back with more! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your productivity, debug your code, as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. Browse this comprehensive ...

Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23
Harshada Hole
Visual Studio has been supporting external sources debugging and decompilation for some time now. However, with the release of Visual Studio 17.7, the debugger took a significant leap forward by introducing Auto-decompilation for .NET libraries making the external code debugging in Visual Studio much more streamlined and effortless. Its ...

Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23
Leah Tran
The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId...