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Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
John Montgomery
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement – customers could use the “send a smile” feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as “I like this” or “I don’t like this...

Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions

September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18
Mads Kristensen
I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility project in Visual Studio, but unless you understand the basics of how the extensibility system works, then you are setting yourself up ...

Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18
Allison Buchholtz-Au
Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

August 20, 2018 Aug 20, 2018 08/20/18
Dominic Nahous
For this release of Visual Studio for Mac, we’ve focused our energy on improving product reliability, creating a better code editing experience, and making the performance second to none. We’re also exited to announce full support for Azure functions – it’s now possible to create, edit, configure, and publish your Function from within the IDE.