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    Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Preview 2 Releases Today
    Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Preview 2 Releases Today
    April 14, 2021 Apr 14, 2021 04/14/21
    Justin Johnson
    We are excited to announce the release of Visual Studio v16.10 preview 2. This release continues a theme of developer productivity and convenience. We’ve added C++20 ranges, IntelliSense completions, and new features for testing, Docker, and Git integration!

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    [Guest Post] Better refactoring for Unity projects using .NET analyzers
    [Guest Post] Better refactoring for Unity projects using .NET analyzers
    February 10, 2021 Feb 10, 2021 02/10/21
    John Miller
    In this guest post, Visual Studio Tools for Unity intern Shreya Pandit shows how she created custom analyzers for Unity, and how you can get involved with the open source project as well.

    1RefactoringUnityVisual Studio 2019
    Java on Visual Studio Code October Update
    Java on Visual Studio Code October Update
    October 18, 2019 Oct 18, 2019 10/18/19
    Xiaokai He
    Welcome to the October update of Java on Visual Studio Code! This month, we're bringing some new features for code navigation, code actions and refactoring, code snippet along with Java 13 support. There's also improvements in debugger, maven, checkstyle and Test Runner.

    5CheckstyleDebuggingJava
    Java on Visual Studio Code September Update
    Java on Visual Studio Code September Update
    September 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 09/16/19
    Xiaokai He
    September update for Java on Visual Studio Code. Including move refactoring, more code actions, live linting, new getting started experience and more updates for debugger and test runner extensions.

    1DebuggingGetting StartedJava
    Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
    Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
    September 5, 2019 Sep 5, 2019 09/5/19
    Mark Wilson-Thomas
    With Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 3 we are happy to announce that refactorings can now be enhanced by IntelliCode. IntelliCode spots repetition quickly and suggests other places in your code where you might want to apply that same change, right in your IDE

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    Java on Visual Studio Code July Update
    Java on Visual Studio Code July Update
    July 22, 2019 Jul 22, 2019 07/22/19
    Xiaokai He
    Welcome to the July update of Java on Visual Studio Code! In this update, we’d like to share a couple new refactoring features, semantic selection as well as some other enhancements we delivered during last few weeks. Refactoring Trigger rename after extract to variable/constant/method After performing extract to variable/constant/...

    1GradleJavaMaven
    Java on Visual Studio Code June Update
    Java on Visual Studio Code June Update
    June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019 06/24/19
    Xiaokai He
    Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code! Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks. In this update, we’d like to share a couple new features and enhancements delivered during last ...

    Comments are closed.0DebuggingJavaJava Test Runner
    Java on Visual Studio Code April Update
    Java on Visual Studio Code April Update
    May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 05/1/19
    Xiaokai He
    Welcome to April update! Java 12 is now officially supported with Visual Studio Code. We'd also like to show you some new and helpful code actions now available, along with new features from Debugger, Maven and CheckStyle. Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Java 12 ...

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    Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code
    Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code
    February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19
    Xiaokai He
    Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We'd like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Managing your Maven Dependencies Easily ...

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