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Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support
Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHu...
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Auto History Extension in Visual Studio 2013
Have you ever found yourself wishing you could roll back a few hours to a piece of code you had working but have made changes to? You were “in the flow” and you haven’t checked anything in to your source control system (or perhaps weren’t using source code control on your project)? We are pleased to announce the availability of an early preview of an extension on the Visual Studio Gallery to give you automatic, no-configuration history tracking for your local machine. Just install the extension, and whatever you do to your projects and solutions, it silently and efficiently tracks the cha...
Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013
As part of our continued effort to provide updates to customers, Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 is now available for download! You can get VS 2013 Update 1 from the Download Center, MSDN subscriber downloads, or through the notification hub in Visual Studio. This first update for Visual Studio 2013 provides servicing fixes, as well as improves the VS 2013 experience with IE versions prior to IE 10. You can get a detailed overview of issues that have been fixed via the Update 1 KB Article and more information about Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 on the following blogs: · Soma’s Blog · Brian Harry’s Blog If ...
Visually Creating Snippets
Get the new Snippetizer DevLabs Extension here Snippets are a fun and easy way to quickly add code into your app. Snippets are commonly used, small blocks of code that represent a particular action or pattern that developers find useful, ranging from simple try-finally or if-else to entire classes or methods. To insert a code snippets you start with the Edit->Intellisense->Insert Snippet command or the same command from the editor’s context menu. This show a list of snippet topics which you can explore to find the snippet you are looking for. One inserted, snippets guide you to do insert/replace ...
Visual Studio Survey: How do you develop for multiple form factors?
This is your chance to influence the next major release of Visual Studio. If you build applications that target multiple devices or form factors (e.g. a single application consumed on phone, tablet and desktop), we want to hear from you. Your input will be used to shape new features planned to streamline application development -- especially UI development -- for multiple form factors. The survey will take about 10 minutes to complete. By completing the survey, you will be eligible to win a VISA gift certificate. We will be randomly selecting 3 participants who will win a gift card in 1 of 3 increments, $10...
Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013
Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience. We selected the all-time favorites: Enhanced Scrollbar, Move-line and Brace Completion; polished and improved them for prime-time. Once we wrapped up work on Power Tools 2013, we started discussing what we'd like to deliver in the next round of Productivity Power Tools. One theme you've seen us pursue over the last two releases is the idea of 'Information at your fingertips'. We’d like to help you stay focused on y...
Making Visual Studio Accessible
Microsoft as a whole is committed to making our technology accessible to everyone (see our Accessibility Mission Statement). This is true for us here in Visual Studio as well, and we work continuously to improve the accessibility of each product we release. The recently released Visual Studio 2013 is our most accessible version yet. In all versions of Visual Studio, our designers routinely consider a number of areas related to accessibility when designing a new UI. Some such areas are: In alignment with our goal to make each release of Visual Studio perceptively better than the previous versions, we...
Visual Studio Updates – Survey
Hi folks.With Visual Studio 2012 we started the Visual Studio Update program - releasing regular (nearly quarterly) public updates that contained both new features and servicing fixes. To date we’ve released four Updates, and the latest Update for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Updates page. To capture the learning from this effort, we invite you to take a survey as a means of sharing with us your experience and perspectives on the Update program. Our data tells us that this program is well-received, and we‘d like to use your feedback to help fine-tune it for future releas...
Visual Studio 2013 Survey
On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of Visual Studio 2013. While we read and consider all feedback from our community (Connect, UserVoice and Send-a-Smile), as with most development projects we could only implement some of the features and suggestions.Since the GA, customers have adopted the product at a rate that is higher than that of Visual Studio 2012! Now that you have had about one month to use the product, we’d like to hear what you think about i...
Visual Studio 2013 Launch Partners
On November 13, 2013, we launched Visual Studio 2013 at our launch event in New York City, and we’re excited to share that 74 of our Visual Studio Launch Partners are delivering 123 integrated products for you to use as well! Visit the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch site to watch launch keynotes, presentations, demos, and learn all about each of our launch partners and their products. As with the release of any new product, we are always looking to ensure that our new tools can be easily adopted by our developers. We are very fortunate and proud to have a large and diverse community of partners that fee...