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Try out Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview 2

December 13, 2022 Dec 13, 2022 12/13/22
Anthony Cangialosi
I’m excited to share today we released Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 2! Your feedback goes directly to the product team working to deliver you the best developer IDE. We welcome your feedback on Developer Community where we are always eager to hear your suggestions for new or existing features and learn about any bugs or issues via report ...

PHP in Visual Studio

November 3, 2022 Nov 3, 2022 11/3/22
Mads Kristensen
PHP is one of the most popular programming languages for server-side web development. It's used in many frameworks and CSMs like WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, and others which are behind a sizable chunk of the Internet. Visual Studio is a powerful IDE, but its focus didn’t align with some languages, PHP being one of them. As time ...

Visual Studio at Microsoft Build 2022

May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 05/26/22
Chris Hardy
This week we had Microsoft Build 2022 and there were some announcements made in Amanda Silver’s Theme session and multiple breakouts that are exciting for Visual Studio users, like you. We released the .NET Multi-platform App UI (a.k.a. .NET MAUI), announced Microsoft Dev Box, Azure Deployment Environments and Visual Studio on Arm64. With ...

Edge Developer Tools for Visual Studio (Preview)

March 7, 2022 Mar 7, 2022 03/7/22
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
When developing web apps, it’s common to use the browser developer tools to perform various tasks like; modifying the CSS, inspecting network traffic, etc. Because the browser is disconnected from the IDE, if you make changes to the running application in the browser, you will need to remember and reapply those changes to your code as well. ...

Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In this post we have introduced, and demonstrated, the new Web Forms Designer and Web Live Preview that is built into Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2. We are very excited to bring a new designer for Web Forms. We would love for you to try out this new designer experience and let us know how it’s working for you with your own projects and solution

A more integrated terminal experience

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Ruben Rios
As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste.   Solution Explorer...