Tag: Productivity from Visual Studio Blog

Keep your IntelliCode completions fresh with our GitHub Action for Team Completions

Caty CaldwellMay 20, 2020May 20, 202005/20/20

Introducing the Visual Studio IntelliCode GitHub Action for Team Completions, teams can share and automate code completions easily!

Visual Studio IntelliCode automates training a Team Completions model as part of your CI workflow to provide in-line completion suggestions based on your own types in C# and C++.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 is now available

Jacqueline WiddisMarch 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 and 16.6 Preview 1 are available today. Included in this release are updates in .NET Productivity, .NET Mobile development, C++, and debugging.

Modernizing Find in Files

Dante GagneDecember 12, 2019Dec 12, 201912/12/19

Find in Files is one of the most commonly used features in Visual Studio, and in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 preview 1, we've given it the first round of improvements to make it faster and look more in line with the overall Visual Studio look and feel. This post will walk through the improvements and help developers get the most out of it.

‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release

Jacqueline WiddisDecember 3, 2019Dec 3, 201912/3/19

Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 is available today. Highlights of the release include: better GitHub integration, Vertical Tabs, Container Tools, Xamarin Hot Reload, C++ Tooling, .NET Productivity, Pinnable Property Tabs, and much more.

AI-assisted IntelliSense for your team’s codebase

Caty CaldwellNovember 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19

Visual Studio IntelliCode uses machine learning to offer useful, contextually-rich code completion suggestions as you type, allowing you to learn APIs more quickly and code faster. With our latest release, you can easily share IntelliCode team completions and automate updates via an Azure DevOps task.

Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools

Amanda SilverNovember 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19

Harnessing the wisdom of the community, Visual Studio IntelliCode is revolutionizing developer productivity. We started with AI-assisted IntelliSense and are now expanding the application of artificial intelligence to accelerate learning, radically improve development agility, and increase code quality whole line completions and refactoring.

Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter

Sagar ShettySeptember 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19

Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The tool to solve your problems has been here all along!

Say hello to the new Visual Studio terminal!

Ruben RiosSeptember 9, 2019Sep 9, 201909/9/19

Building on the momentum from the recently announced Developer PowerShell, we are excited to share the first preview of the new Visual Studio terminal. This new preview experience is part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3. Rather than build everything from scratch, the Visual Studio terminal shares most of its

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

Ruben RiosAugust 20, 2019Aug 20, 201908/20/19

While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, prov

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