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Live Unit Testing Preview: Better and Faster

March 16, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 03/16/22
Vritant Bhardwaj
Live Unit Testing is the automatic test running feature in Visual Studio Enterprise. As you make code changes, Live Unit Testing detects what tests are impacted and runs them in the background. This way you always know if the tests covering a certain line of code are passing or failing. You can see what your code coverage is for each line of ...

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.

Introducing Time Travel Debugging for Visual Studio Enterprise 2019

April 3, 2019 Apr 3, 2019 04/3/19
Mark Downie
The Time Travel Debugging (TTD) preview in Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 provides the ability to record a Web app running on a Azure Virtual Machine (VM) and then accurately reconstruct and replay the execution path. TTD integrates with our Snapshot Debugger offering and allows you to rewind and replay each line of code however many times you want, helping you isolate and identify problems that might only occur in production environments.

New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Dan Hellem
In previous versions of Visual Studio, the work item experience was centered around queries, which need to be created and managed to find the right work items. In Visual Studio 2019, we have removed queries and added a new view for work items centered at the developer. This allows the developer to quickly find the work they need and associate them to their pending changes. Removing the need for queries.