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Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise

March 4, 2024 Mar 4, 2024 03/4/24
Faisal Hafeez
By using code coverage, you can find out where your testing needs improvement and make your software more robust and dependable. In this post, we will introduce the new features that we introduced to the Code Coverage Results window in Visual Studio Enterprise 2022. These features are:  These features are not available in...

Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)

February 26, 2024 Feb 26, 2024 02/26/24
Jason Chlus
In 2023, we added many new features, fixes, and improvements to Visual Studio 2022 to make your coding experience more productive, enjoyable, and accessible. This blog post looks back at all the notable enhancements that shipped in 2023 for Visual Studio 2022. Here are the recaps for the year...

Visual Studio productivity features in 2023

January 22, 2024 Jan 22, 2024 01/22/24
Leah Tran
Over the last year, we’ve invested heavily in new capabilities to help Visual Studio developers code more easily. Let’s look back on some of the additions that aim to make your coding experience more productive. Productivity highlights Here’s a snapshot of some productivity enhancements that shipped in 2023, ranging from versions ...

Visual Studio Performance Highlights Delivered in 2023

January 8, 2024 Jan 8, 2024 01/8/24
Nayana Srikanth
As we step into 2024, we're taking a moment to look back at the significant performance improvements our team delivered in 2023. Your valuable feedback, active collaboration, and unwavering support have been crucial in enhancing Visual Studio. This past year has been focused on optimizing performance, and we're thrilled to showcase the key ...

Visual Studio 17.8 now available!

November 14, 2023 Nov 14, 2023 11/14/23
Adrian Murphy
Unlock New Heights in Developer Productivity: Optimized C++ Support, Enhanced Enterprise Capabilities, and Full .NET 8 Integration The latest update (17.8) for Visual Studio 2022 is now generally available! Offering a comprehensive suite of enhancements that span productivity, programming languages, and enterprise management, this general...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.7 Performance Enhancements

August 14, 2023 Aug 14, 2023 08/14/23
Nayana Srikanth
Visual Studio 2022 17.7 introduces a set of exciting performance improvements that cater to key areas like F5 Speed, Enhanced Light Bulb Performance in C#, improved memory consumption in C# spell checker, C++ Unreal Engine – IntelliSense optimization, Solution Explorer, Find in Files and much more.  Our key theme is to elevate the ...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Accelerate your builds of SDK-style .NET projects

June 22, 2023 Jun 22, 2023 06/22/23
Leslie Richardson
The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling in and out of Visual Studio.  Our latest episode of VS Toolbox (available both on Learn and YouTube) features Drew Noakes from the .NET team. He demonstrates how you can dramatically reduce build times for SDK-style .NET projects. What is ...

Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes!

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23
Grace Taylor
Performance has always been one of our key investment areas for developer tooling in Microsoft. We understand that it’s important for developers to have a fast workflow. That’s why we’re excited to share with you the support of Dev Drives in Visual Studio! Dev Drive for Visual Studio has just been released to help you optimize your ...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23
Anthony Cangialosi
We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 17.5 is now generally available. This release is full of updates that take friction out of your daily workflows making it easier for you stay in the zone while you code. Features like all-in-one search and intent-based suggestions help you move faster, while improved build and debug speeds ensure ...