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Iterating on your Welcome Experience feedback

May 30, 2023 May 30, 2023 05/30/23
Grace Taylor
One of Visual Studio’s goals is to help you quickly ‘get to code.’ We’ve recently experimented with Welcome Experience in Preview that helps you get to the code and tasks that you care about, right within the Visual Studio shell. Take a look at the original Welcome Experience design and its motivations in the previous blog post. ...

Unified Settings: Share Your Feedback!

May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 05/25/23
Grace Taylor
In a hybrid and cloud-based world, we want to make it easy for you to configure Visual Studio to your preferences whether you're working on a laptop from home, on your desktop in the office, or using a Dev Box or Azure VM. Unified Settings reimagines how you personalize your IDE with a modern UI that reacts to changes immediately, has portable...

What’s New in Visual Studio: Make it Your Home

June 15, 2022 Jun 15, 2022 06/15/22
Grace Taylor
Visual Studio 2022 features an array of improvements during each major and minor release, and we know that you may not have a lot of time to find and try them after each update. We also heard from the developer community that you’d like an easy way to keep up with new Visual Studio capabilities that could be useful in your day-to-day work...

Improved doc management personalization

June 1, 2022 Jun 1, 2022 06/1/22
Grace Taylor
Visual Studio 2022 allows you to personalize your IDE so you can code the way you want. We’ve added new document management capabilities so navigating tabs and organizing your workspace has become more flexible. Take a look at our other Personalization capabilities, such as more flexible theming options, in one of our previous blog posts. ...

Your Visual Studio Dashboard

December 21, 2021 Dec 21, 2021 12/21/21
Misty Hays
I keep thinking about a tweet that said you should tackle challenging problems and do everything you can to maximize time well spent, so your ecosystem doesn’t have to.  Because once you’re distracted, it can be challenging to get back into the flow of writing code. Developers juggle a massive cognitive overload of different software, ...

More flexible and inclusive ways to manage your documents

November 3, 2021 Nov 3, 2021 11/3/21
Grace Taylor
One of Visual Studio 2022’s key investments is in helping you personalize Visual Studio so that you can code the way you want. We’ve added new capabilities for added flexibility and inclusivity for working with your documents! Flexible workspace We’ve introduced a way for you to color file tabs by project, so that you don’t have ...

Bring VS Code themes to Visual Studio 2022!

October 7, 2021 Oct 7, 2021 10/7/21
Grace Taylor
We want developers to have the flexibility to personalize their Visual Studio IDE to fit their individual preferences, and themes are an important component for achieving this goal. We’ve been testing out a Theme Converter that helps theme authors convert their Visual Studio Code themes to work in VS. Last week, we shared a collection of new...

Introducing Collection of New Visual Studio Themes!

September 20, 2021 Sep 20, 2021 09/20/21
Grace Taylor
We are on a journey to make Visual Studio more flexible than ever, so that you can make the IDE work just the way you like it! One of our key focus areas for Visual Studio 2022 is to build a personal, flexible IDE that you can make your own. We’ve teamed up with theme authors from the community to test a new tool that converts VS Code themes...