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Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2 is here!

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23

Taysser Gherfal

Welcome to the Public Preview 2 of Visual Studio version 17.7! Hot on the heels of our recent Preview 1, we're thrilled to roll out another collection of upgrades tailored to empower developers like you. Preview 2 pushes the boundaries further, providing speed, productivity, and collaboration improvements for developers across different ...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23

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 ...

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 ...

Test tools for .NET and cross-platform apps

December 20, 2021 Dec 20, 2021 12/20/21

KendraHavens

Visual Studio 2022 brings better test tools to your everyday development with Show in Test Explorer, Remote Testing, Test audio cues, Playwright, and more!

Expanding Visual Studio 2019 support for Visual Studio Codespaces

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Anthony Cangialosi

Now more than ever, developers are juggling multiple projects at work and at home. New features, bug fixes, PR reviews, & prototypes all compete for time and attention on limited resources. Visual Studio Codespaces provides hosted development environments that allow you to develop entirely in the cloud.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is now available

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.6 is available today and includes an integrated terminal, support for Blazor WebAssembly, updated identity libraries, and support for building and running gRPC projects. Are you ready for the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac? If so, version 8.6 is available for you to download today! With...

Visual Studio Code Docker extension 1.0 – Better than Ever!

March 16, 2020 Mar 16, 2020 03/16/20

Mike Morton

We recently released the 1.0 version of our Visual Studio Code Docker extension, which is the first general availability (GA) release. The Docker extension makes it easier to build apps that leverage Docker containers.

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

February 13, 2020 Feb 13, 2020 02/13/20

Mark Downie

Have you ever experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don't have the symbols, allowing you to look at code, inspect variables and set breakpoints.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.5 Preview 2 is available

January 29, 2020 Jan 29, 2020 01/29/20

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac 8.5 Preview 2 is available today and adds auth templates for ASP.NET Core projects, Xamarin enhancements, and UI improvements.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available

January 8, 2020 Jan 8, 2020 01/8/20

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 is now available. It brings enhancements to the ASP.NET Core developer experience including Blazor, Scaffolding, and .NET Core 3.1 support in addition to accessibility improvements.

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