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Feb 7, 2024
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Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft  

Nandita Gupta
Nandita Gupta

December 3rd was celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, or IDPWD, to bring awareness and understanding of the issues that people with disabilities face around the world. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and that includes empowering developers ...

Visual StudioExtensionsAccessibility
May 10, 2023
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Visual Studio UI Refresh

Kaitlin Brooks Cherry Wang Dante Gagne
Kaitlin,
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Dante

Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems. We’re ...

AnnouncementVisual Studio 2022Accessibility
Mar 8, 2023
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Developing Accessible Apps with Visual Studio

Dante Gagne
Dante Gagne

When your application has an accessibility issue, it means that some users will find it harder or impossible to use your application. This means that a percentage of your users are having a bad experience or simply can’t use your product. The implications are far reaching, because many countries have laws governing accessibility in applications ...

XAMLVisual Studio 2022Accessibility
Feb 21, 2023
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Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released

Anthony Cangialosi
Anthony Cangialosi

We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 17.5 is now generally available. This release is full of updates that take friction out of your daily workflows making it easier for you stay in the zone while you code. Features like all-in-one search and intent-based suggestions help you move faster, while improved build and debug speeds ensure your ...

.NETVisual StudioDebugging and Diagnostics
Sep 5, 2022
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Adding color to bracket pairs

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio, it can be hard to figure out which brackets match and which do not. For people with color blindness or other optic maladies, the problem can be even worse. By color-coding bracket pairs, we’re making this much easier. Various IDE’s and editors offer this feature today – usually...

ExtensionsAccessibilityExperiment
Jun 22, 2022
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Listen Up, Visual Studio has a new feature you need to hear about!

Dante Gagne
Dante Gagne

Our accessibility journey in Visual Studio has taught us that developers love to customize their experiences to help them be productive. Some developers have been telling us that they want to use sound to help them understand what’s happening in their code. A short, simple sound when the caret arrives on a line with an error can quickly help some...

AccessibilityA11yAudio
Aug 17, 2021
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Flexible theming capabilities for Visual Studio 

Grace Taylor
Grace Taylor

If you're like me, maybe you feel like customizing Visual Studio so that your workflow suits your habits in just the right way. Here are a few updates in Visual Studio 2022 that can help with that! We’ve introduced the ability to sync your Visual Studio theme with your Windows theme so that reading can become easier depending on the amount of ...

AccessibilityPersonalizationthemes
Jun 29, 2021
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Let’s make Visual Studio even more accessible together.

Dante Gagne
Dante Gagne

Visual Studio wants to be the most accessible IDE available today. We've made huge strides, but we want to do even more. In this post, we'll talk about some of the new innovations we're exploring and we'd love your feedback. We want to make sure we're making the features that folks will love and we'd love to hear from you.

Visual StudioAccessibilityA11y
Apr 14, 2021
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Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Preview 2 Releases Today

Justin Johnson
Justin Johnson

We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio v16.10 preview 2. This release continues a theme of developer productivity and convenience. We’ve added C++20 ranges, IntelliSense completions, and new features for testing, Docker, and Git integration!

AccessibilityGit IntegrationIntelliSense
Jan 20, 2021
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Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 is Available Today

Jacqueline Widdis
Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 releases today. Highlights of this release include additional functionality in C++, .NET Productivity, XAML Tools, and Accessibility. Check out the new features today!

.NETDebugging and DiagnosticsXAML