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Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Preview 2

June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Jacqueline Widdis

Check out what's new in the new Preview 2 release of Visual Studio 2019 16.2. Find out how to debug your ASP.NET (Core) web apps in the new Microsoft Edge Insider build, how to be more productive when you work with code in the IDE and how we make sure your Visual Studio installation makes the best out of your disk space

Create a private gallery for self-hosted Visual Studio extensions

June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Mads Kristensen

Most Visual Studio extension authors publish their extensions to the public Marketplace to allow everyone to install them and benefit from the large and open ecosystem. However, some companies create extensions for internal use only. A private gallery allows them to distribute these extensions with ease.

Customize object displays in the Visual Studio debugger YOUR way

June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

Leslie Richardson

Did you know that you can view objects by more than just their types in the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows? Learn how you can customize your object views in debugger windows using DebuggerDisplay and Natvis!

Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19

Sean

In October 2018, we shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with hundreds of those shipped in Visual Studio. Thank you for making the move and continuing to help us improve the functionality in Visual Studio!

Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019

May 30, 2019 May 30, 2019 05/30/19

Varun Gupta

Performance has been a big focus area for Visual Studio 2019, with improvements in many areas. We welcome you to try Visual Studio 2019 either with your own projects or with Roslyn Compilers projects we used as examples above and see how it compares to Visual Studio 2017 for your scenarios. We are always looking for more feedback to know which

Visual Studio Extensibility Day 2019 was a hit

May 29, 2019 May 29, 2019 05/29/19

Mads Kristensen

On Friday, May 10th we hosted both internal and external Visual Studio extension authors in the Workshop room in building 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It was a full day event with keynotes and sessions for 60 attendees – half of which attended //build earlier that same week, and half who came just for the Extensibility Day.

Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 05/28/19

Erich(Renyong) Wang

We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019: (image) (image) Prerequisites ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 now generally available (and 16.2 Preview 1 as well)

May 22, 2019 May 22, 2019 05/22/19

Mads Kristensen

Today, we are making Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 generally available, as well as the first preview release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2. You can download both versions from VisualStudio.com. If you already have Preview installed, you can alternatively click the notification bell from inside Visual Studio to update.

Code Reviews Using the Visual Studio Pull Requests Extension

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

Taysser Gherfal

The Pull Requests for Visual Studio is a new experimental extension that adds several code review tools to Visual Studio. This extension aims to make it easy for you to launch and view pull requests inside the integrated development environment (IDE) without needing to switch windows or use the web.

Updates to synchronous autoload of extensions in Visual Studio 2019

May 20, 2019 May 20, 2019 05/20/19

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2019 starts blocking synchronously autoloaded extensions in version 16.1. We’ve seen a tremendous effort of both 1st- and 3rd-party extensions to implement async background load. It’s been truly amazing to see the community of extension authors stepping up to the task.