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Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrated C++ Game Development

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23

Leslie Richardson

The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The show is available both on Learn and YouTube. Our latest episode features C++ program manager David Li, who shows how you can use the new Unreal Engine Integrations in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 to be more ...

Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21

John Miller

If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.

[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.

[Guest post] Learn C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, and Unity (and win a free book!)

November 25, 2020 Nov 25, 2020 11/25/20

Jon Galloway

In this guest post, Andrew Stellman explains his approach to teaching C# with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac by emphasizing exploration, fun, and games. We're announcing a fun coding challenge for beginners, with a chance to win a copy of the new edition of Head First C# book.

Student Spotlight: Outside the Fox thinking outside of the box

May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020 05/4/20

Abdullah Hamed

By Noel Painter (image) In 2018 two roommates began a Computer Graphics and Game Development degree at Charles University in Prague with no prior game development experience. They dove headfirst into the world of game development because their first assignment was to create a game, end-to-end, in only 6 months. As a part of this ...

Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac

February 17, 2020 Feb 17, 2020 02/17/20

Abdullah Hamed

Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

February 11, 2020 Feb 11, 2020 02/11/20

Jb Evain

Making our Unity Analyzers in visual studio Open-Source

Update Visual Studio for Mac for an improved Unity experience!

October 24, 2019 Oct 24, 2019 10/24/19

John Miller

The Visual Studio Tools for Unity team focuses on delivering the best environment to write and debug C# for Unity projects. In this post, we will share some information on the latest features and enhancements that are designed to save you time and help you be more productive. Update to the latest version of Visual Studio for Mac today!

Make games with Visual Studio for Mac and Unity

August 21, 2019 Aug 21, 2019 08/21/19

John Miller

Making games can be rewarding and a lot of fun. If you’d like to learn more about game development follow along by making your first game using Visual Studio for Mac, Unity, and C#.

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview 3

March 5, 2019 Mar 5, 2019 03/5/19

Jordan Matthiesen

This blog post is all about the cool new features, bug fixes and performance improvements we've added to the latest release (Preview 3) of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. Some of the highlights include but are not limited to the following: launching multiple IDE instances, faster Xamarin Android developer tools, and a new C# editor. Read on to learn more.

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