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Database Profiling with Visual Studio

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

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

Caty Caldwell May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20

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++.

Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code

Dan Taylor July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

Today at the EuroPython conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we are introducing support for Python in the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as new improvements in editing for Python developers in Visual Studio Code. AI-assisted IntelliSense for Python At Microsoft Build 2018, we first announced IntelliCode, a set of AI-...

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

Dan Taylor June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

Microsoft's teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn semantics...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1

John Montgomery May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon. Before digging in, I’d like to call out other ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1

Christine Ruana March 13, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 03/13/18

The top highlights of this Preview include productivity enhancements, better diagnostics, additional C++ development improvements, better management of Android and iOS environments, updated tooling for Universal Windows Platform and .NET Core projects, and an improved update experience. Please note that this is the first set of version 15.7 features; more goodness awaits in the next Preview.

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

Visual Studio Blog December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17

Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps ...

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

Visual Studio Blog December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17

[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of ...

Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources

Shawn Nandi November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques, frameworks, tools, and languages emerging all the time. Developers by nature are extremely self-reliant when it comes to dealing with this ...

The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences

Nat Friedman November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Whatever the language or platform, developers want the same thing - to create app experiences that are high-quality, intelligent and personalized. Experiences that delight users and keep them engaged. To do that, we need tools that increase our productivity, so that we spend more time on what matters most to our app's success. At Connect...

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