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Agent mode is now generally available with MCP support
Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHu...
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Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11
With the first wave of new iPhone 8 devices landing in people's hands, and the installed base of iOS 11 users growing rapidly, it's an exciting time to build apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as macOS and the new 4k Apple TVs and Cellular Apple Watches. Of course, Visual Studio and Xamarin are ready to enable you as .NET developers to create native mobile apps for these new devices with C# and F#. We are excited to share with you that with our latest release of Xamarin.iOS on Mac and Windows, you now have access to all the latest features of the Apple's new hardware. iOS apps with Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin ...
Source Control Showcase: Integrating Subversion and Perforce into Visual Studio 2017
Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more integrated experience in Visual Studio. Two of our partners, VisualSVN and Perforce, have taken advantage of this opportunity and we’re excited to be able to showcase the work they’ve done! VisualSVN With over 400,000 installs, VisualSVN is one of our most popular source control extensions. In their current extension for Visual Studio 2017, you can now quickly add Subversion source control to your solution via the “Add t...
7 More Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio
So, you really liked learning about 7 Lesser Known Debugging Hacks for Visual Studio? Good news is that there is always more to learn! The Visual Studio debugger is an enchanting creature that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is bursting with tools that can make debugging easier… if you know they exist, and where to find them! Let’s look at 7 more lesser-known goodies you can use to #SuperChargeYourDebugging. 1. Edit the value of a variable without changing code Are you ever debugging when you get to a variable and it isn’t what you think it should be? Or maybe ...
Debug live apps in Azure with the Snappoints and Logpoints preview
At Build, we introduced the Snapshot Debugger: a new tool that enables you to debug production environments in Azure with minimal impact. The Snapshot Debugger enables you to get to the root cause of the “but it worked locally!” production issues with ease. We previously released functionality to automatically capture snapshots when your app runs into problems, now you have more fine-grained control to debug your production app with two new features in Visual Studio: Snappoints and Logpoints. The Snapshot Debugger is currently in preview for ASP.NET apps running on Azure App Services – try it out. Note: the Snap...
A significant update to the XAML Designer
The XAML designers in Visual Studio and Blend have been powerful tools for developers and designers alike to build beautiful user experiences for Windows applications. Initially designed for WPF development in 2007, we have made significant changes to support a wide variety of XAML platforms over the last decade. We’ve also added new features along the way to increase developer productivity. Unfortunately, with all these changes, the performance and reliability of the designer have become less than ideal. We’ve heard the community loud and clear and we are working hard to fix that. Read below to find out what’s ...
New Xamarin University Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks
Join me on Thursday, September 21 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for my “Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks” webinar, where I’ll combine my love of graphics programming with my passion for helping developers build better apps. Whether you’re just getting started or an experienced developer, you’ll learn how to use your .NET and C# skills to create native mobile apps, complete with 3D graphics. [REGISTER] Lately, I've been exploring UrhoSharp, Xamarin's C# and .NET wrapper of Urho3D. Urho3D is a sophisticated, powerful open-source 3D game engine written in C++ -- and it allows developers to build 3D...
Create a CI/CD pipeline to Azure Service Fabric
At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio. This update has support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET Core projects with container support to an existing Azure Service Fabric cluster directly from Visual Studio 2017. To configure continuous delivery to a Service Fabric cluster, first you need to create a preview version Service Fabric cluster. Start by creating a security certificate to secure administrative access to the cluster. Open a PowerShell console, login to Azure and select the Azure subscription that you...
Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.4 Preview
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! I’m happy to announce that the first Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.4 is now available! You can either download it from here, or if you already have Preview installed, you’ll receive a notification that the update is available. This latest Preview contains new tools and features in several key workloads such as Universal Windows Platform (UWP) development, .NET desktop development, and Mobile and Game develop...
Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio with support for configuring a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline for ASP.NET Core projects with container support to an existing Azure App Service on Linux directly from Visual Studio 2017. With the latest update to the extension we introduced the ability to create a new Azure App Service On Linux while config...