Tag: Productivity from The Visual Studio Blog

New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019

Dan HellemDecember 12, 2018Dec 12, 201812/12/18

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.

AI-assisted Coding Comes to Java in Visual Studio IntelliCode

Xiaokai HeNovember 12, 2018Nov 12, 201811/12/18

Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like contextual IntelliSense, code formatting and style rule inference. During SpringOne 2018, we announced that we will bring those productivity boosters to Java developers and now we’re happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java with IntelliCode Extension for VS Code.

Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

Allison Buchholtz-AuAugust 30, 2018Aug 30, 201808/30/18

Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests,

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

John MontgomeryAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

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.

How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers

Kasey UhlenhuthJuly 31, 2018Jul 31, 201807/31/18

Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.

Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces

Balan SubramanianJuly 9, 2018Jul 9, 201807/9/18

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces, a cloud-native development experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), where you can work on your applications while always staying connected with the cloud and your team.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio BlogMarch 6, 2017Mar 6, 201703/6/17

As we are getting set up to launch Visual Studio 2017 tomorrow, we wanted to let you know that we have released the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017. So, you’ll be able to hit the ground running with all your favorite productivity features.

Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE

Visual Studio BlogJuly 21, 2015Jul 21, 201507/21/15

Visual Studio 2015 was released yesterday. Throughout the prereleases, you’ve seen some major announcements, from the new VS 2015 product lineup introducing Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Code, to the release of a free Visual Studio Community Edition with support for VS extensions.

Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013

Visual Studio BlogMay 23, 2014May 23, 201405/23/14

Today, we’re releasing an update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 on the Visual Studio Gallery. In this release, we fixed a number of customer-reported bugs and issues, and introduced a new feature called syntactic line compression.

Syntactic line compression enables you to make better use of your screen’s vertical real-estate.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio BlogDecember 19, 2013Dec 19, 201312/19/13

Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we’ve taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience.

We selected the all-time favorites: Enhanced Scrollbar,