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Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available

Dominic NahousMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is available today and includes an integrated terminal, support for Blazor WebAssembly, updated identity libraries, and support for building and running gRPC projects. Are you ready for the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac? If so, version 8.6 is available for you to download today! With...

Releasing Today! Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 & v16.7 Preview 1

Jacqueline WiddisMay 19, 2020May 19, 202005/19/20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 is generally available today along with version 16.7 Preview 1. Check out our newest features in C++, .NET Productivity, Git Integration, and XAML. Plus, sign-up to try VS Codespaces.

Building a Progressive Web App with Blazor

Jon GallowayMay 13, 2020May 13, 202005/13/20

A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a Single Page Application (SPA) that uses modern browser APIs and capabilities to behave like a desktop app. Blazor WebAssembly (now in preview) includes support for Progressive Web Applications. This blog post walks you through building a basic Blazor PWA application.

Student Spotlight: Outside the Fox thinking outside of the box

Abdullah HamedMay 4, 2020May 4, 202005/4/20

By Noel Painter In 2018 two roommates began a Computer Graphics and Game Development degree at Charles University in Prague with no prior game development experience. They dove headfirst into the world of game development because their first assignment was to create a game, end-to-end, in only 6 months. As a part of this assignment the ...

Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working

Nik MolnarApril 30, 2020Apr 30, 202004/30/20

With a new name of Visual Studio Codespaces, lowered pricing, a Basic instance type, and many other new features, there's never been a better time to try remote development. Go give it a try!

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

Andy SterlandApril 28, 2020Apr 28, 202004/28/20

Ever had a bug in an async method that caused an exception? Been frustrated that the debugger doesn't show you where that exception happened? Or been frustrated when looking at an exception that has an inner exception, but the debugger doesn't easily show you where that exception was from? Starting from the Visual Studio 2019 16.5 release, the...

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

Sayed-Ibrahim-HashimiApril 22, 2020Apr 22, 202004/22/20

In this post we will cover how you can create a .NET Standard library and then share that with other developers via NuGet. We will be demonstrating this with Visual Studio for Mac, but you can also follow along with Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code when using the dotnet CLI. If you are on macOS, and haven’t already download Visual Studio...

See What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 3!

Jacqueline WiddisApril 16, 2020Apr 16, 202004/16/20

Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 3 releases today with new features in Git user experiences, Terminal, Mobile Developer, and Microsoft Fakes for .NET Core.

Bring your own machine to Visual Studio Online

Allison Buchholtz-AuApril 9, 2020Apr 9, 202004/9/20

Today Visual Studio Online provides fully-managed, on-demand, ready-to-code development environments in the cloud, but did you know you can also register your own machines and access them remotely from Visual Studio Code or our web editor? This is a great option for developers that want to cloud-connect an already configured work or home ...