Productivity

Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools

Amanda Silver November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19

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 Shetty September 24, 2019 Sep 24, 2019 09/24/19

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 Rios September 9, 2019 Sep 9, 2019 09/9/19

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 Rios August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

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, ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released!

Jacqueline Widdis August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19

Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are excited to share our changes. First of all, the latest Preview versions both PC and Mac are available to download from VisualStudio.com. You can ...

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.

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