Tag: Tips and Tricks from Visual Studio Blog

Get more done with search in Visual Studio

Mads Kristensen October 26, 2020 Oct 26, 2020 10/26/20

Over the years, the Search feature in Visual Studio has gotten faster and more capable. You might have missed some of the things it can do to help you be more productive and get the most out of Visual Studio. So, let’s take a closer look at how you can use Search in your daily work. I hit Ctrl+Q to use Search every single day and have for...

How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio?

Leslie Richardson June 11, 2020 Jun 11, 2020 06/11/20

Debugging async code is challenging. Let's explore some Visual Studio tools that can help you debug your async programs easier!

How Do I Think About Async Code?!

Leslie Richardson June 10, 2020 Jun 10, 2020 06/10/20

What's asynchronous code? When and why should you use it? Check out this introduction to asynchronous code and how you can apply it to your future programs!

Modernizing Find in Files

Dante Gagne December 12, 2019 Dec 12, 2019 12/12/19

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.

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!

Become a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series

Cody Beyer January 30, 2019 Jan 30, 2019 01/30/19

Visual Studio for Mac comes packed with powerful, yet hidden features. In this video series, we put together a number of tips and tricks to help you become more productive and efficient with writing code with Visual Studio for Mac. Whether you're creating a new game with Unity or a new web application with .NET Core, these short, roughly 5-minute, videos will help you do it better and faster. Check out the new series now!

Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen December 20, 2018 Dec 20, 2018 12/20/18

What if the community of extension authors banded together to add powerful features to Visual Studio that made it easier to create extensions? That’s the idea behind Extensibility Essentials – an extension pack that ships community-recommended extensions for extension authors.

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.

Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace

Deborah Chen May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18

Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.

7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

Anson Horton October 5, 2017 Oct 5, 2017 10/5/17

I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Gem #1 - Expression Evaluator Format Specifiers The part of the debugger that processes the language ...

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