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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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How can I pause my code in Visual Studio? Breakpoints FAQ
Have you ever found a bug in your code and wanted to pause code execution to inspect the problem? This blog post showcases the various kinds of breakpoints that can be used to accomplish this task in Visual Studio 2017.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2
Today, we are releasing the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, and it can be downloaded here. This latest preview contains new features and improvements to Universal Windows Platform development, C++ debugging, and export installation settings. Read more in the feature highlight summary below and check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2 release notes for more details on all the new, exciting features contained in this Preview. Universal Windows Platform Development In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 preview 2, we have a combination of new features and product enhancements for Univ...
Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor
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. We are so excited to share these features with you and look forward to your feedback! Multi-Caret Support One of our top UserVoice items asked for the ability to create multiple insertion and selection points, often shortened to be called multi-caret or multi-cursor support...
Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6
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.
Save with the Unity Pro and Visual Studio Professional Bundle
The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out, as your team’s size and success grows, so does the need for professional tools. We’re happy to announce in partnership with Unity Technologies, you can save 10% (up to $270!) with the all-new Unity Pro & Visual Studio Professional Bundle*. With the bundle you’ll not only get the Visual Studio Professional IDE, but also one year of access to Visual Studio Professional Standard Subscription that includes deve...
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release notes and list of bugs submitted by you that are fixed. If you prefer to first try these updates without installing the release, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure. A couple of notable additions to try: Read on f...
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.
Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code
Today at the EuroPython conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we are introducing support for Python in the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as new improvements in editing for Python developers in Visual Studio Code. AI-assisted IntelliSense for Python At Microsoft Build 2018, we first announced IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities to improve developer productivity. We shipped a preview extension showing the first of these capabilities: presenting the most relevant completions as you type in Visual Studio. Today, we are bringing the power of machine learning trained on over 2,000 open...
Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code
Learn how to use the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code.