Team and Development

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 ...

Azure DevOps requires TLS 1.2 on all connections including Visual Studio

January 28, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 01/28/22

Ruben Rios

Starting Monday January 31st, Azure DevOps will no longer accept connections coming over TLS 1.0 and 1.1 due to security vulnerabilities in those protocols. Developers have increasingly become the target of hackers and these protocols have known security vulnerabilities not specific to Microsoft’s implementation. Going forward Azure ...

A more integrated terminal experience

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21

Ruben Rios

As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste. Solution Explorer...

A more secure GitHub Experience

November 9, 2020 Nov 9, 2020 11/9/20

Ruben Rios

As the next step in the journey towards a more secure GitHub experience, beginning November 13th, GitHub and Visual Studio will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating with the REST API and will instead require using token-based authentication (e.g., personal access or OAuth), for all authenticated operations for GitHub.com. ...

Improving the authentication experience for enterprises leveraging Conditional Access policies

July 10, 2020 Jul 10, 2020 07/10/20

Ruben Rios

As part of the Visual Studio 2019 16.6 update, we’ve introduced a set of new capabilities to improve your overall authentication experience. While these changes benefit all Visual Studio users, they are especially helpful if you need to work across Azure AD tenants that have enabled multi-factor authentication (MFA) policies. That’s ...

Introducing Local Process with Kubernetes for Visual Studio 2019

June 2, 2020 Jun 2, 2020 06/2/20

Nick Greenfield

Local Process with Kubernetes allows you to write, test and debug your .NET microservice code on your development workstation while connected to your Kubernetes cluster with the rest of your application or services.  

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++.

Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Anthony Cangialosi

Now more than ever, developers are juggling multiple projects at work and at home. New features, bug fixes, PR reviews, & prototypes all compete for time and attention on limited resources. Visual Studio Codespaces provides hosted development environments that allow you to develop entirely in the cloud.

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!

Bring your own machine to Visual Studio Online

April 9, 2020 Apr 9, 2020 04/9/20

Allison Buchholtz-Au

Today Visual Studio Online provides fully-managed, on-demand, ready-to-code development environments in the cloud, but did you know you can also register your own machines and access them remotely from Visual Studio Code or our web editor? This is a great option for developers that want to cloud-connect an already configured work or home ...

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