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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 ...

AI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase

November 18, 2019 Nov 18, 2019 11/18/19

Caty Caldwell

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.

Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19

Amanda Silver

Harnessing the wisdom of the community, Visual Studio IntelliCode is revolutionizing developer productivity. We started with AI-assisted IntelliSense and are now expanding the application of artificial intelligence to accelerate learning, radically improve development agility, and increase code quality whole line completions and refactoring.

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