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Design your Web Forms apps with Web Live Preview in Visual Studio 2022

July 16, 2021 Jul 16, 2021 07/16/21
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In this post we have introduced, and demonstrated, the new Web Forms Designer and Web Live Preview that is built into Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2. We are very excited to bring a new designer for Web Forms. We would love for you to try out this new designer experience and let us know how it’s working for you with your own projects and solution

Visual Studio for Mac: Top Features of the New Editor

October 1, 2019 Oct 1, 2019 10/1/19
Cody Beyer
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...

Resolve code issues in live apps running in Azure Kubernetes Services with the Snapshot Debugger

July 15, 2019 Jul 15, 2019 07/15/19
Mark Downie
Snapshot Debugger is built for production so you can set Snappoints and Logpoints in code, like debugger breakpoints and tracepoints. However, when a Snappoint is hit in an AKS Linux Docker container, a snapshot is dynamically created without stopping the process. You are then able to attach to these snapshots using Visual Studio.

Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19
Jon Chu
Today we’re excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or entirely co-located, we want to make your collaboration experiences more enjoyable and productive with Live Share.

Visual Studio Live Share for real-time code reviews and interactive education

December 6, 2018 Dec 6, 2018 12/6/18
Jon Chu
Collaborating with your team using Visual Studio Live Share keeps getting easier! Since making Live Share available for the public use at BUILD last May, we’ve heard so much great feedback from our users, which has helped guide us in continuing to build a tool that truly enables developers to collaborate in all the ways they need from the ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
John Montgomery
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 ...