Category:Team and Development from Visual Studio Blog

A more integrated terminal experience

Ruben RiosJanuary 14, 2021Jan 14, 202101/14/21

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

Ruben RiosNovember 9, 2020Nov 9, 202011/9/20

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

Ruben RiosJuly 10, 2020Jul 10, 202007/10/20

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

Nick GreenfieldJune 2, 2020Jun 2, 202006/2/20

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

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++.

Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces

Anthony CangialosiMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

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

Nik MolnarApril 30, 2020Apr 30, 202004/30/20

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

Allison Buchholtz-AuApril 9, 2020Apr 9, 202004/9/20

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 ...

AI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase

Caty CaldwellNovember 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19

Visual Studio IntelliCode uses machine learning to offer useful, contextually-rich code completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to learn APIs more quickly and code faster. With our latest release, you can easily share IntelliCode team completions and automate updates via an Azure DevOps task.

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