Category:Open Source from Visual Studio Blog

[Guest Post] Better refactoring for Unity projects using .NET analyzers

John Miller February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21

In this guest post, Visual Studio Tools for Unity intern Shreya Pandit shows how she created custom analyzers for Unity, and how you can get involved with the open source project as well.

A more secure GitHub Experience

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

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. ...

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++.

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

Jb Evain February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source

Debug JavaScript in Microsoft Edge from Visual Studio

Zoher Ghadyali October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

You can now debug JavaScript running in the next version of Microsoft Edge, built with Chromium, directly from Visual Studio! In this post, we walk through creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using React.js and show you how to set breakpoints and debug your client-side JavaScript code running in Edge with Visual Studio.

Java on Visual Studio Code September Update

Xiaokai He September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19

September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.

Java on Visual Studio Code July Update

Xiaokai He July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19

Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code! In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks. Refactoring Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method After performing extract to variable/constant/...

Azure IoT Tools help you connect to Azure IoT Hub in 1 minute in Visual Studio Code

Jun Han June 12, 2019 Jun 12, 2019 06/12/19

When doing development for Azure IoT solutions, developers may want to test and debug their cloud solution with a real device. However, not every developer has a real device in their hand. With the Azure IoT Tools for Visual Studio Code, you can easily use Visual Studio Code as a device simulator to quickly interact with Azure IoT Hub.

Java on Visual Studio Code April Update

Xiaokai He May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 05/1/19

Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We'd also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle. Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Java 12 ...

Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We'd like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Managing your Maven Dependencies Easily ...

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