Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is now available

Dominic NahousMarch 23, 2020Mar 23, 202003/23/20

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 is available today and includes ASP.NET Core authentication templates, support for Azure Functions 3.0, and improvements to the overall experience for those using assistive technologies.

Visual Studio for Mac: Become a Productivity Pro

Cody BeyerMarch 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20

Despite continued advancement and innovation in the IDE space, the bottom line is that IDEs are a productivity tool. As a software developer, the value of an IDE is directly related to how much using the tool increases your productivity. Subsequently, when we make decisions about how to improve Visual Studio for Mac, your productivity is alway

Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event recap

Jon GallowayMarch 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20

We had a great time at the Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on February 24th! All the videos, slides, and links to demo code are available for you to watch, use for your own virtual events, blog posts, etc. in this repo. In case you couldn’t watch it then, here’s a session recap and links to the on-demand videos: Keynote: A Fres

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is now available

Jacqueline WiddisMarch 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 and 16.6 Preview 1 are available today. Included in this release are updates in .NET Productivity, .NET Mobile development, C++, and debugging.

Visual Studio Code Docker extension 1.0 – Better than Ever!

Mike MortonMarch 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20

We recently released the 1.0 version of our Visual Studio Code Docker extension, which is the first general availability (GA) release. The Docker extension makes it easier to build apps that leverage Docker containers.

The Spring 2020 Roadmap for Visual Studio published

Mads KristensenMarch 2, 2020Mar 2, 202003/2/20

The Visual Studio roadmap has been updated to provide a peek into the work planned for Visual Studio through June 2020. It captures significant capabilities that we plan to add, but it's not a comprehensive feature list.

What’s New in Visual Studio Online

Allison Buchholtz-AuFebruary 27, 2020Feb 27, 202002/27/20

Learn what the Visual Studio Team has been working on since our public preview announcement last November. We've got lots of new things from better environment configurations to Visual Studio Code Insiders support and more!

Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); Event - Feb 24

Reminder: Visual Studio for Mac: Refresh(); event on Feb 24

Jon GallowayFebruary 20, 2020Feb 20, 202002/20/20

The Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event is just a few days away, starting on Monday, February 24, at 9 AM. We’ve got a great day of content planned. Make sure to “save the date” so you don’t forget over the weekend! https://aka.ms/vs4mac-event

Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac

Abdullah HamedFebruary 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20

Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

Mark DownieFebruary 13, 2020Feb 13, 202002/13/20

Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.