Mark Wilson-Thomas

Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio IntelliCode

Mark is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio IDE team, where he's been building developer tools for over 15 years. He currently looks after Visual Studio IntelliCode. Prior to that, he worked on the Visual Studio Editor, and on tools for Office, SQL, WPF and Silverlight.

Post by this author

Type less, code more with IntelliCode completions

June 17th, 2021
In Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 you can automatically complete larger chunks of code, up to a whole line at a time; download the preview now.

Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!

September 5th, 2019
With Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 3 we are happy to announce that refactorings can now be enhanced by IntelliCode. IntelliCode spots repetition quickly and suggests other places in your code where you might want to apply that same change, right in your IDE

Code more, scroll less with Visual Studio IntelliCode

March 14th, 2019
Learn how to get Visual Studio IntelliCode to make recommendations based on patterns it finds in your own code in 3 simple steps.

Argument completion made easy with Visual Studio IntelliCode

March 12th, 2019
IntelliCode now makes recommendations for arguments in your C# code. Just install the latest version of the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio and start editing C# code faster with in-line suggestions.  It's as simple as that!

Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code

December 5th, 2018
At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference. IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive ...

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code

July 17th, 2018
Learn how to use the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code.

Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated

August 21st, 2017
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! In the earlier post “Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time” , we introduced the new Build and Code ...

Updates in Visual Studio 2017 based on your UserVoice suggestions

August 15th, 2017
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! Visual Studio sources community suggestions from the Visual Studio UserVoice site, where thousands of users have logged and voted on community ...

Productivity in Visual Studio 2017 RC

November 28th, 2016
We know that many developers choose Visual Studio because of its powerful, yet natural, productivity features that help you stay “in the zone”. Visual Studio 2017 RC brings many improvements in this regard, helping you stay even more focused on your program rather than on the tools you use to build it. Download it now to see how you can ...