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Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18
Mark Wilson-Thomas
At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference. IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive ...

Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Visual Studio Blog
Today, in the Microsoft Connect(); 2018 keynote, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1. This is the first preview of the next major version of Visual Studio. In this Preview, we’ve focused on a few key areas, such as making it faster to open and work with projects stored in git repositories, improving ...

Visual Studio Roadmap Updates and Visual Studio 2019 Information

October 17, 2018 Oct 17, 2018 10/17/18
John Montgomery
Yesterday, we covered What’s next for Visual Studio for Mac, and today we’ve updated our Visual Studio Roadmap so you can see the latest news about what we’re working on. We’re particularly excited to share this update since it includes information about the first preview of Visual Studio 2019, which we will make available by the end ...

How to upgrade extensions to support Visual Studio 2019

September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18
Mads Kristensen
Recently, I’ve updated over 30 of my extensions to support Visual Studio 2019 (16.0). To make sure they work, I got my hands on a very early internal build of VS 2019 to test with (working on the Visual Studio team has its benefits). This upgrade process is one of the easiest I’ve ever experienced. I wanted to share my steps with you to...

What’s Next for Visual Studio

June 6, 2018 Jun 6, 2018 06/6/18
John Montgomery
Since we launched Visual Studio 2017 in March of that year, it has become our most popular Visual Studio release ever. Your feedback has helped our team publish seven updates since our initial GA, which have improved solution load performance, build performance, and unit test discovery performance. We’ve also made Visual Studio 2017 our most...