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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters
Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feed...
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Suffer from Ctrl+S fatigue? We have a feature for you
The idea of the “Integrated Development Experience” is a tool that brings all the systems a developer needs to develop their application into a single place. Coding, debugging, publishing, profiling… these are all tools that Visual Studio brings to our developers.
Live Unit Testing Preview: Better and Faster
Live Unit Testing is the automatic test running feature in Visual Studio Enterprise. As you make code changes, Live Unit Testing detects what tests are impacted and runs them in the background. This way you always know if the tests covering a certain line of code are passing or failing. You can see what your code coverage is for each line of your product code at a glance. You get instant feedback in the editor with pass/fail icons in the margin and you can easily run or debug the impacted tests from the Live Unit Testing icons. Live Unit Testing will help you catch if new code changes cause tests to fail as you d...
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 7
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 7 is here and continues our focus on addressing top issues and driving forward to a high-quality GA (general availability) release. In addition to many fixes, this release brings back Xamarin mobile tooling as a supported experience and introduces Azure Functions V4 tooling which supports running on .NET
Happy 25th birthday Visual Studio!
It’s now been 25 years since the first release of Visual Studio in 1997 and such a big milestone deserves a proper celebration. The Visual Studio 25th Anniversary Event kicks off at 9 AM Pacific Time on Thursday, March 17, with exclusive content and exciting reveals all day long. During the online event, you’ll see familiar faces from Visual Studio’s past and present tell behind-the-scenes stories and fun-facts. With 25 years of history, there is no shortage of anecdotes to share. But the Visual Studio team members are not the only ones with Visual Studio stories to share. You, the user, have your favorite...
Edge Developer Tools for Visual Studio (Preview)
When developing web apps, it’s common to use the browser developer tools to perform various tasks like; modifying the CSS, inspecting network traffic, etc. Because the browser is disconnected from the IDE, if you make changes to the running application in the browser, you will need to remember and reapply those changes to your code as well. To make you more productive, we have partnered with the Edge Developer Tools team to start integrating their developer tools into Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core, and ASP.NET, developers. You can download and install the preview extension at https://aka.ms/edgetools-for-vs. In ...
Line-staging (Interactive Staging)
Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right from the editor. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across different commits. Download the latest Preview version of Visual Studio and start staging chunks of changes right from the IDE. 17.2 Preview 1 updates The following list summarizes the main items we were able to address during this release: ...
Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6
It’s February, and time for another Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview release! Today we’re sharing Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 6, which focuses on addressing top issues from the January 25th Preview 5 release as well as continuing the move of the IDE to native macOS UI. Preview 5 was a huge release for the product, debuting the IDE running on top of the .NET 6 CLR and with native support for Apple’s M1 processor. Get the latest release now by using the Visual Studio > Check for Updates… menu, or download it directly: Fixing top issues & reducing crashes The top focus of this release was on im...
Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/TypeScript/JavaScript. Both Visual Studio and VSCode achieve this using a transformer model trained on large volume of code data; The research has been published in ESEC/FSE 2020. In this post we'll dive deeper into the technical advances we've made to deliver the IntelliCode wh...
Visual Studio 2022 17.1 is now available!
Today, Visual Studio 2022 17.1 graduates from preview and reaches general availability. Feedback from developers like you have helped us shape and refine Visual Studio 17.1 through its preview cycle and we’d like to thank you for your part in Visual Studio’s journey. In my last blog post for Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, I shared details around exciting additions to Visual Studio that included enhancements in Git, Search and Navigation, productivity improvements in C# and C++, and added capabilities for personalizing colored tabs. Throughout the rest of the 17.1 Previews, we continued to address feedb...