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GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: A Recap of 2023

March 14, 2024 Mar 14, 2024 03/14/24
Amy Nguyen
In the rapidly evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. The introduction of AI in Visual Studio, particularly GitHub Copilot, has revolutionized the way developers code. With Copilot integrated into Visual Studio, you can leverage AI to streamline your workflows, manage large codebases, analyze exceptions...

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...

A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

February 23, 2024 Feb 23, 2024 02/23/24
authorsJason Chlus, David Li
Game development is evolving rapidly and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. I’m thrilled that David Li took the time to highlight all the improvements added to Visual Studio for game developers during 2023. Check out his blog here.  The Unreal Engine integrations are where my eyes jumped to first. There is now an Unreal Engine...

A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio

January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024 01/30/24
Sy Brand
As we enter the new year, it’s a good time to look back at all the features and improvements we made for C++ developers in Visual Studio in 2023. We’ve made advancements across the IDE, toolchain, and the vcpkg package manager in both performance and functionality. Some focus areas have been ARM64 support, Unreal Engine development, code ...

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 ...

2023 – a year of community experiments

January 9, 2024 Jan 9, 2024 01/9/24
Mads Kristensen
As we enter a new year, we wanted to catch you up on several experiments your feedback and participation helped us fine tune over the course of 2023. A community experiment is when we identify features believed to increase user productivity and happiness, and then build and test it with the community of Visual Studio users. These are ...

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 ...

A year of making you more productive using Git in Visual Studio

December 27, 2023 Dec 27, 2023 12/27/23
Jessie Houghton
As we reflect on the past year, it’s clear that the journey of enhancing our Git tooling has been exciting! Our team has been dedicated to increasing GitHub integration, boosting productivity, and addressing valuable feedback from Developer Community. Today, we’re thrilled to share the milestones we’ve achieved and the enhancements that ...