Grace Taylor

Product Manager

I build personalized developer tools that make Visual Studio more flexible and comfortable for individuals and teams. These personalizations include color themes between VS/VS Code, color tabs, and personalization in Dev Boxes, in the Shell and platform.

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Iterating on your Welcome Experience feedback

May 30th, 2023
One of Visual Studio’s goals is to help you quickly ‘get to code.’ We’ve recently experimented with Welcome Experience in Preview that helps you get to the code and tasks that you care about, right within the Visual Studio shell. Take a look at the original Welcome Experience design and its motivations in the previous blog post. ...

Unified Settings: Share Your Feedback!

May 25th, 2023
In a hybrid and cloud-based world, we want to make it easy for you to configure Visual Studio to your preferences whether you're working on a laptop from home, on your desktop in the office, or using a Dev Box or Azure VM. Unified Settings reimagines how you personalize your IDE with a modern UI that reacts to changes immediately, has portable...

Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes!

May 24th, 2023
Performance has always been one of our key investment areas for developer tooling in Microsoft. We understand that it’s important for developers to have a fast workflow. That’s why we’re excited to share with you the support of Dev Drives in Visual Studio! Dev Drive for Visual Studio has just been released to help you optimize your ...

Help us investigate a new Welcome Experience in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2

March 16th, 2023
A central theme across Visual Studio releases is 'get to code' quickly. Over the years, we’ve tried many approaches to accelerate start up, project selection or creation, and restoration of previous state. In Visual Studio 2019 we created the modal 'start window' experience that optimized for getting to the primary action most developers ...

The fastest way to add files and folders

February 27th, 2023
Your Visual Studio team is excited to announce the release of the highly anticipated "Quick Add Files & Folders" feature in Visual Studio version 17.5! This new feature is the fastest and most convenient way to add files and create folders within your projects. Based on the feedback from the Visual Studio Developer Community, Quick Add ...

What’s New in Visual Studio: Make it Your Home

June 15th, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 features an array of improvements during each major and minor release, and we know that you may not have a lot of time to find and try them after each update. We also heard from the developer community that you’d like an easy way to keep up with new Visual Studio capabilities that could be useful in your day-to-day work...

Improved doc management personalization

June 1st, 2022
Visual Studio 2022 allows you to personalize your IDE so you can code the way you want. We’ve added new document management capabilities so navigating tabs and organizing your workspace has become more flexible. Take a look at our other Personalization capabilities, such as more flexible theming options, in one of our previous blog posts. ...

More flexible and inclusive ways to manage your documents

November 3rd, 2021
One of Visual Studio 2022’s key investments is in helping you personalize Visual Studio so that you can code the way you want. We’ve added new capabilities for added flexibility and inclusivity for working with your documents! Flexible workspace We’ve introduced a way for you to color file tabs by project, so that you don’t have ...

Bring VS Code themes to Visual Studio 2022!

October 7th, 2021
We want developers to have the flexibility to personalize their Visual Studio IDE to fit their individual preferences, and themes are an important component for achieving this goal. We’ve been testing out a Theme Converter that helps theme authors convert their Visual Studio Code themes to work in VS. Last week, we shared a collection of new...

Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!

September 20th, 2021
We are on a journey to make Visual Studio more flexible than ever, so that you can make the IDE work just the way you like it! One of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2022 is to build a personal, flexible IDE that you can make your own. We’ve teamed up with theme authors from the community to test a new tool that converts VS Code themes...