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Deploy Visual Studio updates to devices enrolled in Windows Update for Business

November 9, 2022 Nov 9, 2022 11/9/22
Christine Ruana
Starting in November 2022, IT Administrators can now deploy Visual Studio administrator security updates throughout their organization to cloud connected devices that are configured to use Windows Update for Business (WUfB) and are managed by mobile device management solutions such as Microsoft Endpoint Manager (also known as Intune). This ...

Visual Studio’s Azure Marketplace images now support Microsoft Dev Box

October 5, 2022 Oct 5, 2022 10/5/22
Ruben Rios
Over the last couple of years, we’ve expanded our Visual Studio VM image offerings for the Azure Marketplace. These images have proven to be popular not only for evaluating the latest Visual Studio releases, but also for jumpstarting developer environments in the cloud. In this post, we'll introduce new images optimized for running Visual ...

Now Introducing Arm64 Support for VS Extensions!

September 22, 2022 Sep 22, 2022 09/22/22
Leslie Richardson
Back in June, we announced Arm64 Visual Studio 2022 application, the first version of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors.  Now, we’re excited to announce the extensions you write, and use, are supported in Arm64 VS!   Adding Arm64 support to your new or existing extension...

It’s finally here. Bicep is in Visual Studio!

September 14, 2022 Sep 14, 2022 09/14/22
Uche Nkadi
In less than two years, Bicep’s VS Code extension has grown from zero users to more than 15 thousand a month. In addition to the Bicep extension's success, millions of resources are now deployed with Bicep files via Azure CLI and Azure PowerShell. Our incredible community has not only shaped the suite of Bicep features we know and love today...

Choosing a .NET Memory Profiler in Visual Studio – part 1

August 11, 2022 Aug 11, 2022 08/11/22
Clément Habinshuti
Summary Visual Studio provides two great tools for analyzing and diagnosing memory issues in .NET applications: the Memory Usage profiler and .NET Object Allocation Tracking tool. While both tools are useful, it may not be obvious for new user to know which one to use when. This article aims to clarify what each tool is good for and how to ...

VisualStudio.Extensibility: A New Way to Write Extensions

August 10, 2022 Aug 10, 2022 08/10/22
Leslie Richardson
Last year, we announced the first phase of a new extensibility model for Visual Studio.  This new model will make extensions easier to write and more reliable along with additional benefits such as being able to install these extensions without restarting the IDE.  Now, we’re excited to announce the second phase of the new extensibility ...

Analysis Services and Reporting Services extensions for Visual Studio 2022 are here!

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22
Leslie Richardson
We’re happy to announce the popular and long-awaited Analysis Services, RDLC Report Designer, and Reporting Services extensions are available for Visual Studio 2022!  Here’s how these Microsoft extensions for SQL Server can further enhance your business intelligence solution development environment. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) ...

Update all Visual Studio installations with a single click!

May 9, 2022 May 9, 2022 05/9/22
Sayyeda Mussa
We are continuously improving the Visual Studio update experience so that it’s as easy and effortless as possible. Many of you take advantage of the side-by-side support for Visual Studio and have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed simultaneously. In 17.3 Preview 1, we’ve made it easier to update all of your side-by-side versions...

Live Unit Testing Preview: Better and Faster

March 16, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 03/16/22
Vritant Bhardwaj
Live Unit Testing is the automatic test running feature in Visual Studio Enterprise. As you make code changes, Live Unit Testing detects what tests are impacted and runs them in the background. This way you always know if the tests covering a certain line of code are passing or failing. You can see what your code coverage is for each line of ...

Typing Less, Coding More: How we delivered IntelliCode whole line completions with a transformer model

February 16, 2022 Feb 16, 2022 02/16/22
Shengyu Fu
Introduction Great code completions make you more productive while composing your code. Visual Studio 2022 now automatically completes C# code up to a whole line at a time, using a rich knowledge of your coding context. We have also released the IntelliCode Completions extension in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to speed up coding in Python/...