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Documents and tool windows unleashed

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Mads Kristensen
We’re continuing our video series with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio. This week is all about managing tool windows and documents. There are lots of options to customize how we layout the various windows, documents, and tabs that you use every day. Knowing about these features will help you optimize your usage ...

New: Better search in Visual Studio

January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23
Leah Tran
Whether you are looking for specific code files, classes, methods, or features and options in the IDE, finding them is not always easy. With multiple ways to search, how would you even know which one to choose? The new All-In-One Search combines code and feature search into the same UI and adds some extra power and productivity to the ...

Cool features in Visual Studio 2022

October 31, 2022 Oct 31, 2022 10/31/22
Mads Kristensen
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at a conference about cool new features in Visual Studio 2022. It was a pre-recorded presentation, so I was able to do final edits to the video before sending it to the conference organizers. The result was a 38-minute-long video highlighting some of my favorite new features, tweaks, and extensions. And ...

Live coding Visual Studio extensions

August 17, 2020 Aug 17, 2020 08/17/20
Mads Kristensen
Writing extension for Visual Studio can be a challenging affair. It also happens to be extremely satisfying and a lot of fun. But even with our getting-started guidance, there is still a lot to learn, explore, and keeping up with. After 10 years and over 130 extensions, I still learn something new every time I write an extension. So why not ...

Learn with Visual Studio Remote Office Hours

May 27, 2020 May 27, 2020 05/27/20
Mads Kristensen
A new live broadcast directly from the Visual Studio team (my garage to be exact) is now streaming near you every Thursday morning. It's about everything Visual Studio and you get rare insights into the inner workings of features, processes, and the people that make it all happen. This is like being in the machine room and you get to see and ...