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Designed with your feedback: a better Extension Manager
Earlier this year, we showed you how to try a preview version of our new Extension Manager, which was designed to make it easier for developers like you to find great extensions to boost your productivity and personalize your Visual Studio experience. We invited you to use it and share your thoughts, and you delivered. Thank you for all the feedback! We’ve made updates and fixes based on your feedback to bring you an even better Extension Manager in Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 3. Extension Manager Updates You let us know in your feedback that you appreciate the new UI’s focus on extension details, so we’...
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3 is here!
Welcome to Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3! This release is dedicated to addressing community submitted feedback where we resolved nearly 100 Developer Community tickets. Our primary focus was improving stability and reliability while also introducing a few new features. Productivity Visual Studio Update Notification Noticed something new? For Visual Studio 2022, we added an overlay to the VS task bar icon to help you know when VS will update. When there is an update available and you have enabled the "Update on Close" option, the icon will appear. Once you close VS, an update will immediately ...
How Microsoft Empowers Developers with Disabilities: Celebrating NDEAM
October is National Disability Employee Awareness Month, or NDEAM, a time to celebrate the contributions of workers with disabilities and raise awareness about the value of diverse and inclusive workforces across the globe. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and that includes ensuring every developer who uses our tools to create amazing products and services. In this post, we want to highlight some of the accessibility features that make Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code (VS Code) a delightful experience for all developers, in...
Now Streaming: The Visual Studio ‘Tea & Technology’ Miniseries
2023 Visual Studio Miniseries: Tea & Technology The Visual Studio team is full of stories and insights, and we knew it was time to share them. So, we picked up our cameras and went on a special tour of Microsoft’s iconic Redmond Campus. Our goal? To offer you a snapshot—an insider's look at just a few of the many people who contribute to shaping Visual Studio every day. Leading us in these select conversations is the seasoned podcaster Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks. With decades of experience mirroring Visual Studio's own history, Richard uses his insightful questioning to bring a level of clarity that...
A unit of profiling makes the allocations go away
In Visual Studio 17.8 Preview 2 we have updated unit test profiling, allowing you to use any of the available tools in the performance profiler – not just the instrumentation tool. With this change, it’s easy to quickly profile small units of work in isolation, make changes, and then remeasure and validate the impact of the change. Assuming you have good test coverage, this is a great way to leverage existing assets to help performance-tune your application. Who moved my cheese? With this new release, we have updated the unit test profiling experience. Previously when selecting profile in the context menu for a...
New React TypeScript SPA Templates and More
We have made the latest React TypeScript SPA Templates available in our latest preview. If you are developing React TypeScript Web application with ASP.NET as backend in Visual Studio, go ahead and try the new template! All the Visual Studio React and Vue templates using the JavaScript SDK are now using Vite, so you would get the benefit of a much faster project creation and run experience. All the features and updates in this blog post are available in our latest version. React TypeScript SPA Templates When we initially released the JavaScript/TypeScript with ASP.NET Combined Templates in this blog ...
IntelliTest simplifies writing and maintaining unit tests
Writing a suite of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, IntelliTest addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the cost, and now in Preview, this Enterprise feature supports projects that target .NET6 and will run on x64. When you run on your .NET code, it generates test cases by dynamically analyzing the code. For every statement in the code, it crafts an input that will reach that statement, doing a case analysis for every conditional branch—if statements,...
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 has arrived!
We hope everyone enjoyed all the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio’s next version, and now we’re back with more! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your productivity, debug your code, as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. Browse this comprehensive list of enhancements and let us know which of these enhancements is your favorite: You can delve into the complete list of enhancements by checking out the Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2 Release Notes, and we always love to know what you think with feedback through Develope...
Balancing User Updates with Security Best Practices
In today’s world, it is imperative for IT administrators and organizations to manage security effectively and embrace security best practices. One common best practice involves implementing appropriate permission levels to ensure that only authorized accounts can access sensitive data and functionality. Another widely accepted best practice involves keeping software up to date with the latest security patches. Visual Studio recommends both of these security best practices as described in the online documentation for User permissions and Visual Studio and Applying Administrator Updates. Up until now, we’ve had ...