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Make games with Visual Studio for Mac and Unity

August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19

John Miller

Making games can be rewarding and a lot of fun. If you’d like to learn more about game development follow along by making your first game using Visual Studio for Mac, Unity, and C#.

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

Ruben Rios

While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, ...

Find solutions faster by analyzing crash dumps in Visual Studio

August 19, 2019 Aug 19, 2019 08/19/19

Mark Downie

When unexpected crashes occur in your managed application you are often left with little evidence of the issue; capturing and analyzing memory dumps may be your last best option. Thankfully Visual Studio is a great tool for analyzing your apps memory dumps! In this post we show you how easy it can be to resolve the issue using Visual Studio.

Code, Recent Items, and Template Search In Visual Studio

August 15, 2019 Aug 15, 2019 08/15/19

Andrew Cheung

Check out several additions to VS Search in 16.3. We have added the ability to search for code, recently opened items, and templates.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released!

August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are excited to share our changes. First of all, the latest Preview versions both PC and Mac are available to download from VisualStudio.com. You can ...

Async loaded .NET projects may impact Visual Studio extensions

August 8, 2019 Aug 8, 2019 08/8/19

Mads Kristensen

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3, the CSProj project system (C#/VB non-SDK style) introduces a new way of loading called Partial Load Mode (PLM). After the solution loads, the project system is doing design time builds in the background, leaving the UI responsive and interactive. Extensions may need to adjust for this behavior change.

Preview Features in Visual Studio

August 5, 2019 Aug 5, 2019 08/5/19

Stephanie Su

The Preview Features page under Tools > Options > Environment has a new look! We introduced the Preview Features page so that you can easily find these capabilities and be able to control their enablement. The new layout provides more information and an opportunity to give feedback on the features. While these features are in development...

Azure IoT Tools July Update: IoT Edge tooling GA and more!

August 2, 2019 Aug 2, 2019 08/2/19

Jun Han

Welcome to the July update of IoT Tooling! In the release, we have made a lot of features and improvements for our IoT developers! General Availability of IoT Edge tooling Azure IoT Edge was released in the year of 2017. With near two years’ continuous working on the Azure IoT Edge Tooling, we are happy to announce that Azure IoT ...

Theming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier

August 1, 2019 Aug 1, 2019 08/1/19

Mads Kristensen

Sometimes the default themes for Visual Studio just aren’t enough. Lucky for us, we’ve just redesigned the process of creating and importing custom themes.

Status on Visual Studio feature suggestions

July 31, 2019 Jul 31, 2019 07/31/19

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio receives over 500 feature suggestions from customers every month on the Developer Community website. Handling that amount is a huge effort and we’d like to share with you how we handle this volume and the steps that we take to respond to them all.