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Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!

September 9, 2019 Sep 9, 2019 09/9/19
Ruben Rios
  Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3. (image)   Rather than build everything from scratch, the Visual Studio terminal shares most...

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19
Ruben Rios
While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, ...

Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger

July 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 07/15/19
Mark Downie
Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19
Christos Matskas
Today we’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. This is an important milestone in the iteration of our container tooling in Visual Studio, as we try to empower developers to work better with their containerized applications directly from within the IDE. The current Visual Studio Tools for Containers provide a great getting started experience for developers building new containerized applications, as well as capabilities to containerize an existing application.

Introducing Time Travel Debugging for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019

April 3, 2019 Apr 3, 2019 04/3/19
Mark Downie
The Time Travel Debugging (TTD) preview in Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 provides the ability to record a Web app running on a Azure Virtual Machine (VM) and then accurately reconstruct and replay the execution path. TTD integrates with our Snapshot Debugger offering and allows you to rewind and replay each line of code however many times you want, helping you isolate and identify problems that might only occur in production environments.