Tag: Productivity from Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 is now available (and a Preview for 8.2)

Cody Beyer June 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019 06/13/19

Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.1 is available today along with a new Preview for v8.2. Both releases bring exciting new features, performance improvements and additional capabilities to help you be code better, faster.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Preview 2

Jacqueline Widdis June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Check out what's new in the new Preview 2 release of Visual Studio 2019 16.2. Find out how to debug your ASP.NET (Core) web apps in the new Microsoft Edge Insider build, how to be more productive when you work with code in the IDE and how we make sure your Visual Studio installation makes the best out of your disk space

Announcing the general availability of IntelliCode plus a sneak peek

Allison Buchholtz-Au May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19

Visual Studio IntelliCode is now generally available and we're offering a sneak peek of an up and coming feature.

Redesigning the New Project Dialog

Pratik Nadagouda April 29, 2019 Apr 29, 2019 04/29/19

Last week, we released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2. If you have the latest update – awesome and thank you. If not, you can download it from the link above. Or, if you already have the Preview, just click the notification bell inside Visual Studio to update. This post discusses one of the most visible interface changes we’ve ...

Code more, scroll less with Visual Studio IntelliCode

Mark Wilson-Thomas March 14, 2019 Mar 14, 2019 03/14/19

Learn how to get Visual Studio IntelliCode to make recommendations based on patterns it finds in your own code in 3 simple steps.

New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019

Dan Hellem December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18

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 He November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18

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-Au August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18

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, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

John Montgomery August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

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. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the ...

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

Kasey Uhlenhuth July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

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.

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