Skip to main content
Microsoft
Visual Studio
Visual Studio
  • Home
  • DevBlogs
    • Visual Studio
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Visual Studio for Mac
    • DevOps
    • Developer support
    • CSE Developer
    • Azure SDK
    • IoT
    • Command Line
    • Perf and Diagnostics
    • Dr. International
    • Notification Hubs
    • Math in Office
    • DirectX
    • PIX
    • SurfaceDuo
    • Startups
    • Sustainable Engineering
    • Windows AI Platform
    • C++
    • Java
    • Java Blog in Chinese
    • JavaScript
    • PowerShell Community
    • PowerShell Team
    • Python
    • Q#
    • TypeScript
    • Visual Basic
    • Visual C#
    • Visual F#
    • .NET
    • ASP.NET
    • NuGet
    • Xamarin
    • #ifdef Windows
    • Apps for Windows
    • Azure Depth Platform
    • Azure Government
    • Bing Dev Center
    • Microsoft Edge Dev
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Office 365 Development
    • Old New Thing
    • Windows MIDI and Music dev
    • Windows Search Platform
    • Azure Cosmos DB
    • Azure Data Studio
    • Azure SQL
    • OData
    • Revolutions R
    • SQL Server Data Tools

Visual Studio Blog

The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team

Tag: Tips and Tricks from Visual Studio Blog

Get more done with search in Visual Studio
Get more done with search in Visual Studio
Mads Kristensen 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...

7SearchTips and Tricks
How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio?
How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio?
Leslie Richardson 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!

5.NETasync
How Do I Think About Async Code?!
How Do I Think About Async Code?!
Leslie Richardson 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!

20.NETasync
Modernizing Find in Files
Modernizing Find in Files
Dante Gagne 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.

35FindFind in Files
Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
Avatar 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!

26Debugging and DiagnosticsProductivity
Become a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series
Become a Visual Studio for Mac super user with this Tips and Tricks Video Series
Cody Beyer 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!

2Tips and TricksVisual Studio for Mac
Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions
Build Visual Studio extensions using Visual Studio extensions
Mads Kristensen 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.

9ExtensionsTips and Tricks
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
Kasey Uhlenhuth 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.

Comments are closed.0.NET.NET Framework
Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace
Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace
Deborah Chen 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.

1.NETASP.NET
7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017
7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017
Anson Horton 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 ...

Comments are closed.0.NETAzure
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Next page
Relevant Links
  • Visual Studio homepage
  • Visual Studio documentation
  • Visual Studio Dev Essentials
  • Microsoft Azure

Visual Studio on YouTube

  • Visual Studio Tips & Tricks
  • Visual Studio Toolbox
  • Visual Studio Office Hours
  • Writing extensions with Mads
Top Bloggers
Jacqueline Widdis

Jacqueline Widdis
Release Manager

Mads Kristensen

Mads Kristensen
Senior Program Manager

Jon Galloway

Jon Galloway
Senior Program Manager

Avatar

Mark Downie
Senior Program Manager

Ruben Rios

Ruben Rios
Senior Program Manager

Topics
.NET.NET Core.NET FrameworkAccessibilityAdministratorAndroidAngularJSAnnouncementApplication InsightsArtificial IntelligenceASP.NETASP.NET CoreasyncasynchronousAuthenticationAzureAzure Active DirectoryAzure App ServicesAzure BoardsAzure Cache for RedisAzure Cognitive ServicesAzure Data LakeAzure DevOpsAzure FunctionsAzure IoT DeviceAzure IoT EdgeAzure IoT HubAzure Key VaultAzure Kubernetes ServiceAzure Machine LearningAzure MLAzure SDKAzure Search ServiceAzure StackAzure StorageAzure ToolingBig DataBingBlazorBlendBreakpointsBuildC#C#C++C++ conformanceCASTCheckstyleCLIcloudcloud developmentcloud nativeCloudPilotCMakeCode ReviewsCodeLensCodespacesCOMcommand promptConditional AccessConnectContainersContinuous Integration/Continuous DeliveryCordovaCSSCustomer DevelopmentData ScienceDatabaseDebuggerDebuggingDebugging and DiagnosticsDeep LearningDevBlogsdeveloperDeveloper Command PromptDeveloper CommunityDevTest LabsDiagnosticsDockerDocsdocument managementEclipse JDT Language ServerEFEnterpriseEntity FrameworkEventexceptionExtensionsF#FeedbackFindFind in FilesFsharpGame DevelopmentgamingGetting StartedGitGit IntegrationGitHubGradleHockeyAppHTMLIdentityInstrumentationIntelliCodeIntelliCode CompletionsIntelliCode suggestionsIntelliSenseIntelliTestIntelliTraceiOSIoTIoT EdgeJavaJava Test RunnerJavaScriptKubernetesLicensingLintingLive ShareMachine LearningMavenMFAmicroservicesMicrosoft BandMobileMSBuildMVVMNode.jsNuGetnuget packagesnuget performancenuget restoreOffice 365 APIOffice Developer ToolsOfflineONNXONNX RuntimeOpen Sourcepackage managementparallel stacksPerformancePerformance ProfilerPluralsightPowerShellPreviewPreview FeaturesPricingProducProductivityprofileProfilingPROSEPyDataPythonQ#QuantumRRefactoringRegular ExpressionsRemoteResourcesRoadmaproslynSCCMSearchself-hostedServerless ComputingService FabricSign insolution load performanceSource ControlSQLSubscriberTeam Foundation ServerTemplatesterminalTestingThe Visual Studio Pull Requests ExtensionTips and TricksTomcatTools for Apache CordovaTrainingTypeScriptUI DesignUnityUniversal AppsUniversal Windows PlatformUnrealUnrealEngineUpdateVertical Document tabsVertical tabsvideoVisual BasicVisual StudioVisual Studio 2010Visual Studio 2012Visual Studio 2013Visual Studio 2015Visual Studio 2017Visual Studio 2019Visual Studio 2019 forVisual Studio 2019 for MacVisual Studio App CenterVisual Studio CodeVisual Studio CodespacesVisual Studio Dev EssentialsVisual Studio EnterpriseVisual Studio for MacVisual Studio Live ShareVisual Studio OnlineVisual Studio PreviewVisual Studio ProfilerVisual Studio SubscriptionsVisual Stuidio 2019VS CodeVSIPVSMacWebWebinarwfhWindows 10Windows PhoneWinFormsWPFWSUSXamarinXamarin.FormsXAML

Stay informed

Login
Code Block
What's new
  • Surface Laptop 4
  • Surface Laptop Go
  • Surface Go 2
  • Surface Pro X
  • Surface Duo
  • Microsoft 365
  • Windows 10 apps
  • HoloLens 2
Microsoft Store
  • Account profile
  • Download Center
  • Microsoft Store support
  • Returns
  • Order tracking
  • Virtual workshops and training
  • Microsoft Store Promise
  • Financing
Education
  • Microsoft in education
  • Office for students
  • Office 365 for schools
  • Deals for students & parents
  • Microsoft Azure in education
Enterprise
  • Azure
  • AppSource
  • Automotive
  • Government
  • Healthcare
  • Manufacturing
  • Financial services
  • Retail
Developer
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Windows Dev Center
  • Developer Center
  • Microsoft developer program
  • Channel 9
  • Microsoft 365 Dev Center
  • Microsoft 365 Developer Program
  • Microsoft Garage
Company
  • Careers
  • About Microsoft
  • Company news
  • Privacy at Microsoft
  • Investors
  • Diversity and inclusion
  • Accessibility
  • Security
English (United States)
  • Sitemap
  • Contact Microsoft
  • Privacy
  • Manage cookies
  • Terms of use
  • Trademarks
  • Safety & eco
  • About our ads
  • © Microsoft 2021