Showing results for September 2024 - Visual Studio Blog

Sep 30, 2024
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Effortless Instrumentation profiling with Persistent Target Selection

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Ever wished to assess your code's performance without repeatedly choosing the target process or executable for each instrumentation profiling session? If so, you're among many developers who find this task cumbersome and prone to errors, especially when profiling the same target repeatedly. We understand your frustration and have a solution: Vis...

ProfilingVisual Studio Profiler
Sep 26, 2024
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Creating a React TODO app in Visual Studio 2022

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In this tutorial we will create a React front-end, with JavaScript, of a TODO web app using a Visual Studio 2022. To get started install Visual Studio with the Node.js development workload. This will include the JavaScript/TypeScript (JSTS) projects and the associated support. The code for this app can be found at sayedihashimi/todojswebapp (github...

Sep 25, 2024
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Organize Your Breakpoints like a pro

Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole

Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experience. Breakpoint groups allow you to create custom collections of breakpoints and apply vari...

Debugging and DiagnosticsDeveloper ProductivityBreakpoints
Sep 24, 2024
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Next-Gen Code Coverage in Visual Studio: Enhanced C++ Support and Security

Jakub Chocholowicz
Jakub Chocholowicz

We’re excited to share the latest changes in Visual Studio’s code coverage components. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our previous blog posts: What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling? and Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise. C++ Code Coverage Tired of instable native code coverage that doesn’t support ARM64? Now, ...

Visual Studio 2022securityArm64
Sep 23, 2024
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Level up your collaborations with the pull request experience in Visual Studio

Jessie Houghton
Jessie Houghton

One of our main goals is to help you and your team collaborate more effectively and efficiently on your software projects. That's why we are constantly improving our Version Control features, especially the ones related to the pull request workflow. Starting in Visual Studio version 17.11, you can enjoy a smoother and smarter pull request experienc...

Git Integration
Sep 18, 2024
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Multi-Project Launch Configuration

Nayana Srikanth
Nayana Srikanth

Are you tired of the hassle of manually configuring your development environment every time you want to launch multiple projects? We've heard your feedback and are thrilled to announce a feature in Visual Studio that simplifies your workflow. The Multi-Project Launch Configuration feature in Visual Studio allows developers to set up and save pro...

Sep 17, 2024
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How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices

Mark Downie
Mark Downie

Are you developing .NET applications for Arm-based processors? Do you want to take advantage of the performance and power efficiency of running your apps natively on Arm64 devices? If so, you'll be happy to hear that Visual Studio 2022 17.11 has a new feature that makes it easier than ever to do just that. Visual Studio 2022 natively support...

.NETArm6432-bit
Sep 16, 2024
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Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes

Peter Spada
Peter Spada

Visual Studio 2022 introduced a new XAML designer for building WPF apps, with a goal of increasing the performance and reliability of the designer. The new designer can quickly open a XAML file by using WPF’s built-in parser and display. This new design has a nuanced behavior when the root XAML element derives from an abstract base class. This arti...

XAMLWPF
Sep 12, 2024
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VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support

Dominic Nahous
Dominic Nahous

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE process for improved performance and reliability. Additional benefits include a sleek and intuitive ...

Extensions
Sep 11, 2024
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Search scoping helps you find what you’re looking for

Leah Tran
Leah Tran

If you're working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling through pages of irrelevant matches. Wouldn't it be nice if you could narrow down your search scope to only th...

Searchcode search