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

Caty CaldwellMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

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++.

Improvements to XAML tooling in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview 1

Dmitry LyalinMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

In this blog post we'd like to catch you up on what's new in Visual Studio tooling for XAML developers building WPF, UWP and Xamarin.Forms applications. In this post we'll cover new features shipped in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5, 16.6 and the most recent release 16.7 Preview 1.

What’s new in XAML developer tools in Visual Studio 2019 for WPF & UWP

Dmitry LyalinDecember 4, 2019Dec 4, 201912/4/19

If you missed our previous releases or simply have not had a chance to catch-up, this blog post will be the one place where you can see every major improvement we’ve made throughout 2019.

Windows Desktop Developer Twitch Workshop (March 14, 2019)

Dmitry LyalinMarch 7, 2019Mar 7, 201903/7/19

Today we’d like to announce an upcoming free live streaming workshop on March 14th, 2019 focused on Windows Desktop development for .NET applications using frameworks such as WPF, WinForms and UWP.

Enhanced in Visual Studio 2019: Search for Objects and Properties in the Watch, Autos, and Locals Windows

Leslie RichardsonJanuary 28, 2019Jan 28, 201901/28/19

Are you inspecting many variables at once in the Locals window? Tired of constantly scrolling through the Watch window to locate the object you are currently interested in? New to Visual Studio 2019, you can now find your variables and their properties faster using the new search feature found in the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows!

Visual Studio Code Updates for Java Developers: Rename, Logpoints, TestNG and More

Xiaokai HeDecember 14, 2018Dec 14, 201812/14/18

We're proud to announce an update to the Java Extension Pack, including new Language Support for Java(TM) by Red Hat, Debugger for Java, Maven, Java Test Runner and Java Dependency Viewer.

Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace

Deborah ChenMay 24, 2018May 24, 201805/24/18

Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.

Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms

Julia LiusonMay 7, 2018May 7, 201805/7/18

At Microsoft Build this year we have many exciting announcements - .NET Core 2.1 RC, Future of Windows Desktop Development, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability, Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview, and we introduce Visual Studio IntelliCode.

Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps

Nish AnilApril 16, 2018Apr 16, 201804/16/18

Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP. 

Visual Studio at GDC 2018

Visual Studio BlogMarch 14, 2018Mar 14, 201803/14/18

Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event looking to join the growing community of more than half a million monthly active developers building great games with Visual Studio today. ...

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