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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++.

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

Dmitry Lyalin May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 05/20/20

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 Lyalin December 4, 2019 Dec 4, 2019 12/4/19

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 Lyalin March 7, 2019 Mar 7, 2019 03/7/19

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 Richardson January 28, 2019 Jan 28, 2019 01/28/19

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 He December 14, 2018 Dec 14, 2018 12/14/18

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 Chen May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18

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 Liuson May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

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 Anil April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18

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 Blog March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18

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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