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Delivering on a promise – the essential extension pack
During Microsoft Build 2020 in May, developers watching the live stream asked me to make it easy to acquire the basic extensions all Visual Studio users would benefit from. What a great idea, so of course I said yes. The wait is now over, get the The Essentials extension pack today! During my Visual Studio 2019 (remote dev) tips & tricks session at the Build conference, I showed off a few extensions. I’m a big fan of Visual Studio extensions and write quite a few of them when I have the time. So, when asked several times for a quick and easy way to install the most useful extensions, I said “sure, I’l...
Debugging Async Code: Parallel Stacks for Tasks
Want a visual depiction of how your async code is executing in Visual Studio? Check out the newly updated Parallel Stacks for Tasks window!
How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio?
Debugging async code is challenging. Let's explore some Visual Studio tools that can help you debug your async programs easier!
How Do I Think About Async Code?!
What's asynchronous code? When and why should you use it? Check out this introduction to asynchronous code and how you can apply it to your future programs!
Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2 Available Today!
Today we are releasing 16.7 Preview 2 with new features in C++ Connection Manager, .NET Productivity, Git Productivity, and Local Process with Kubernetes. Give them a try and let us hear your feedback!
Introducing Local Process with Kubernetes for Visual Studio 2019
Local Process with Kubernetes allows you to write, test and debug your .NET microservice code on your development workstation while connected to your Kubernetes cluster with the rest of your application or services.
Visual Studio Subscriptions administrator feature updates
We’ve heard your feedback about wanting an improved Visual Studio subscriptions administration experience and are sharing details about a few big changes we hope you’ll like!
Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours
A new live broadcast directly from the Visual Studio team (my garage to be exact) is now streaming near you every Thursday morning. It's about everything Visual Studio and you get rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. This is like being in the machine room and you get to see and hear it all. One of the ideas with the show is to provide some help, tips and tricks for working from home. That’s why the first episode is about acclimating to working from home with guest and long-time remote worker Scott Hanselman. The style is conversational, li...
Keep your IntelliCode completions fresh with our GitHub Action for Team Completions
Introducing the Visual Studio IntelliCode GitHub Action for Team Completions, teams can share and automate code completions easily! Visual Studio IntelliCode automates training a Team Completions model as part of your CI workflow to provide in-line completion suggestions based on your own types in C# and C++.