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Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22

Anthony Cangialosi

I’m excited to share today we released Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2! Your feedback goes directly to the product team working to deliver you the best developer IDE. We welcome your feedback on Developer Community where we are always eager to hear your suggestions for new or existing features and learn about any bugs or issues via report ...

Visual Studio at Microsoft Build 2022

May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 05/26/22

Chris Hardy

This week we had Microsoft Build 2022 and there were some announcements made in Amanda Silver’s Theme session and multiple breakouts that are exciting for Visual Studio users, like you. We released the .NET Multi-platform App UI (a.k.a. .NET MAUI), announced Microsoft Dev Box, Azure Deployment Environments and Visual Studio on Arm64. With ...

Test tools for .NET and cross-platform apps

December 20, 2021 Dec 20, 2021 12/20/21

KendraHavens

Visual Studio 2022 brings better test tools to your everyday development with Show in Test Explorer, Remote Testing, Test audio cues, Playwright, and more!

Visual Studio 2022 now available

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Amanda Silver

I am really excited to announce that we've reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022. Watch the keynote on YouTube.

Database Profiling with Visual Studio

July 27, 2020 Jul 27, 2020 07/27/20

Esteban Herrera

Examine when database queries were executed and measure how long the take using Visual Studio's Performance Profiler.

Keep your IntelliCode completions fresh with our GitHub Action for Team Completions

May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20

Caty Caldwell

Introducing the Visual Studio IntelliCode GitHub Action for Team Completions, teams can share and automate code completions easily! Visual Studio IntelliCode automates training a Team Completions model as part of your CI workflow to provide in-line completion suggestions based on your own types in C# and C++.

Student Spotlight: Outside the Fox thinking outside of the box

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

Abdullah Hamed

By Noel Painter (image) In 2018 two roommates began a Computer Graphics and Game Development degree at Charles University in Prague with no prior game development experience. They dove headfirst into the world of game development because their first assignment was to create a game, end-to-end, in only 6 months. As a part of this ...

Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20

Nik Molnar

With a new name of Visual Studio Codespaces, lowered pricing, a Basic instance type, and many other new features, there's never been a better time to try remote development. Go give it a try!

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20

Jb Evain

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source

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...

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