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Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation

January 8, 2018 Jan 8, 2018 01/8/18
Xiaokai He
Happy new year! We’d like to thank you all for using Visual Studio Code for your Java development as well as for sharing your feedback. Within just three months, we’ve published 5 releases for our Debugger for Java extension for Visual Studio Code and received 400K+ downloads. With our new 0.5.0 release, we’re adding two new exciting ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Christine Ruana
A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. You can either download the Preview, or, if you already have it installed, click on the notification you’ll receive in the product informing you that the update is available. This latest preview contains new features, productivity improvements, and other enhancements that address our customers' feedback. Read the feature highlight summary in this blog post.

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of ...

Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code

December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17
Xiaokai He
Today, we’re pleased to release a new extension to our Visual Studio Code Java extension family - Test Runner/Debugger for Java. It’s a lightweight test runner/debugger with below features we hope you will like. (image) Same as the Debugger for Java, this is also an open source project. Please check out the github ...

TFVC support and other enhancements hit Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio

November 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017 11/27/17
Visual Studio Blog
A year ago, we released the first preview of the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio (CD4VS) with support for configuring a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects with and without container support. With CD4VS you can always configure Continuous Delivery for solutions under source ...

Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language servers to provide a rich editing experience for languages that initially had no native language support in Visual Studio. With these extensions, ...

Test Experience Improvements

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
There have been several significant improvements to the test experience that range across Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. These efforts involved frameworks and tooling for both .NET and C++, but all had a common goal: make testing with our developer tools a great experience. .NET Side-by-side Performance Comparison These ...

Spend more time working on the interesting stuff

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively these offerings can save you and your team time in many different ways, from helping find bugs faster, to making it easier to work with data, to ...

Keep Your Skills Up to Date: New Training and Azure Resources

November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17
Shawn Nandi
Finding better ways to upskill is a consistent topic that comes up when we talk to you about what’s top of mind. It’s no wonder when the one constant in our industry is change with new techniques, frameworks, tools, and languages emerging all the time. Developers by nature are extremely self-reliant when it comes to dealing with this ...