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Keyboard Shortcuts to Master Your Git Flow in Visual Studio

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23
Jessie Houghton
One popular way for users to optimize their efficiency is to leverage shortcuts to interact with the UI. With Git tasks, like Committing, Pulling, and Pushing being part of your daily workflow, learning how to avoid leaving the keyboard for the mouse can keep you in the zone. Checkout some other shortcuts on this printable keyboard shortcut...

Five shortcuts to boost your productivity

January 9, 2023 Jan 9, 2023 01/9/23
Mads Kristensen
Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we’ve put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio. ...

View .NET collections with the new IEnumerable Debugger Visualizer

April 21, 2022 Apr 21, 2022 04/21/22
Harshada Hole
While debugging .NET code, inspecting a large and complex collection object can be tedious and difficult. Hence, starting from Visual Studio 17.2. Preview 2, we are introducing a new Visualizer, which will help you view IEnumerable objects such as Arrays, List, etc. in a customized tabular view.  The IEnumerable visualizer will display ...

Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Shengyu Fu
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/...