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Elevating Debugging with Auto-decompilation and External Sources

September 6, 2023 Sep 6, 2023 09/6/23
Harshada Hole
Visual Studio has been supporting external sources debugging and decompilation for some time now. However, with the release of Visual Studio 17.7, the debugger took a significant leap forward by introducing Auto-decompilation for .NET libraries making the external code debugging in Visual Studio much more streamlined and effortless. Its ...

Keep your casing with Case-preserving Find and Replace

September 5, 2023 Sep 5, 2023 09/5/23
Leah Tran
The Visual Studio search experience is getting a new feature that allows users to find and replace text without having to worry about different casings. For example, a method parameter `catalogItemId` and object property `CatalogItemId` have the same name but different capitalization but should both be replaced by something like ‘productId...

Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23
Anthony Cangialosi
Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple. While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to ...

Learn about new and old VS tools on Visual Studio Toolbox!

August 29, 2023 Aug 29, 2023 08/29/23
Leslie Richardson
Do you like watching videos to learn about new and existing Visual Studio features?  Then you should check out the Visual Studio Toolbox show!  Available on both Learn and YouTube, Visual Studio Toolbox is a show that helps you become a more productive developer in VS by highlighting tooling within the IDE and the wider Visual Studio ...

Working with images just got easier in Visual Studio

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23
Mads Kristensen
Any web, desktop, or mobile developer works with images often. You reference them from C#, HTML, XAML, CSS, C++, TypeScript, and even in code comments. Some images are local, and some exist online or on network shares, while others only exist as base64 encoded strings. We refer to them in numerous ways in code, but always as string values that...

Safely use secrets in HTTP requests in Visual Studio 2022

August 23, 2023 Aug 23, 2023 08/23/23
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In the 17.8 Preview 1 version of Visual Studio 2022 we have updated the HTTP file editor to enable you to externalize variables to make testing your Web APIs across different environments easier. This update also includes support to handle secrets in a secure fashion. To access these new features, you’ll need to install 17.8 Preview 1, or ...