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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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Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 2, Fall Sports, and Pumpkin Spice
Today Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4 Preview 2 is released. Check out our new features in Container Tools, GitHub Integration, and IDE productivity.
Visual Studio extensibility is better with IntelliCode
Installing the Visual Studio extension development workload presents you with a choice of optional components. Looking at the list might leave you rather confused, because how are various C++ components and the Class Designer especially relevant to writing extension? And where is IntelliCode?
Introducing solution-level NuGet Package Management in Visual Studio for Mac
A new solution-level NuGet Package Manager is one of the exciting new features of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3. We've made improvements to help you discover packages more easily. This includes an improved experience while searching for new packages, gaining an understanding of what packages are already installed in your project, and
Visual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor
Over the past year, the Visual Studio for Mac team updated the editors within the IDE to be faster, more fluent and more productive. We did this by building a macOS-native editor interface on top of the same editor backend as Visual Studio on Windows. In version 8.1 we introduced the new C# editor. This was followed by the new XAML editor in 8.2. And most recently, we updated our web languages to utilize the new editors in version 8.3, completing the process we set out to do a year ago. To celebrate this accomplishment, I wanted to share a bit of detail regarding the design and implementation of the new editors a...
Azure IoT Tools September Update: Azure IoT Edge remote debug and more!
Welcome to the September update of Azure IoT Tools! In this September release, you will see the improved remote debugging experience and Azure IoT Device Provisioning Service support in Visual Studio. Additionally, an iotedge-compose tool has been released for you to port compose-based apps to Azure IoT Edge. Debug Azure IoT Edge C# remote Linux container With the version 16.3 release of Visual Studio 2019, the remote debugging experience in Linux docker containers has been improved. The feature is intended to help generic container debugging. We can leverage it in Azure IoT Edge module scenario to help ...
Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos
We have been posting several short videos about Visual Studio extensibility to our YouTube channel in the past couple of months. We chose the topics for the first videos, but now it’s time for you to tell us what videos to record next.
Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The tool to solve your problems has been here all along!
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3
Today, we’re releasing version 8.3 of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac - our .NET IDE, built natively for macOS. This release is predominantly driven by your feedback: delivering a faster and more reliable ASP.NET Core web developer experience, reducing the time between coding and testing Xamarin UI changes, and including a few “delighters” to make your experience even better. These are the 3 top requests we’ve focused on in this release: ASP.NET Core developers will find this release really exciting. In addition to the items mentioned above, we’ve made the following improvements for your daily co...
.NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 – Update Now!
As we continue to deliver on our mission of any developer, any app, any platform, it's always an exciting time on the Visual Studio team when we get to launch major features. Today we've released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 which contains support for the release of .NET Core 3.0, significant C++ improvements, and great updates for Python developers as well as TypeScript 3.6 support. You can download version 16.3 on visualstudio.com or update from the Visual Studio installer. We are also releasing the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 which can be downloaded from visualstudio.com. For additi...