Visual Studio is a customer driven tool, our team is dedicated to exploring and learning what challenges you may be facing so we can help. To provide the highest quality of feedback we are upgrading our system, which means older versions of Visual Studio will no longer be compatible to provide feedback. If you want to continue to submit feedback, please upgrade to 16.7 or any LTSC service release after April 2021.
We strive to have a transparent and collaborative relationship with our users to offer the best developer experience inside and out of Visual Studio. We encourage users to provide feedback on our primary tool Developer Community, where we receive 3000 feedback items every month. This is the best way to directly reach our engineering teams and ensure that your feedback item will be seen, read, and taken action on. In addition, we receive hundreds of feedback items from Twitter, YouTube, the Visual Studio Blog, various conferences and online events, Facebook, LinkedIn and more so feel free to get involved there too!
We want to offer the best customer experience when giving feedback and make sure that your voice can be heard. For this reason, we are choosing to upgrade our Send Feedback options available in the help menu and feedback center:
This new system will make it much easier for our engineering teams to track, organize and transfer tickets. Our main goal is to have the best communication between our users and the Visual Studio engineering teams as we head into the future. We are expecting this will increase our responsiveness to issues and in turn give the user a much better experience.
This new system does come with a cost. Moving to this new system has made these versions unable to submit feedback for the Send Feedback options:
- 15.9.0 – 15.9.34
- 16.4.0 – 16.4.20
- 16.5.0 – 16.6.X
It is hard for us to make the decision not to support certain versions of Visual Studio, however, with the increase in productivity and scalability that this new system offers we feel it is the right decision for our product.
If you would like to continue to provide feedback and see Visual Studio grow, please upgrade to 16.7 or any LTSC service release after April 2021.
As of today I can’t send feedback. I am using Visual Studio for macOS, version 8.10.16. There is no later version. I am on the latest version. Therefore all ability to upload feedback has been removed.
I’m tempted to suggest this is because VS for macOS is so full of holes! But if this is an error, can this please be turned back on?
Soooo..... what is the improvement?
The entry point is now in Help instead of a separate icon? Wooptidoo
Guess we can conclude that the different entry point allows for deeper integration into VS in collecting the information Msft wants but fewer and fewer users will voluntarily hand over. I am expecting more heavy handedness from Msft, to which I will respond by no longer submitting feedback. But that is too early to tell.
The problem with feedback is not accessibility.
The problems I see are:
Msft is asking its users to invest more time in the discovery of issues, this further increases...
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The problem here isn't the feedback tools. It's that so much feedback is simply ignored.
Take the "new project dialog" issue for example. There are 8 pages of negative feedback on the original blog post about it, and three years of detailed discussion on the the corresponding Developer Community feedback suggestion. The dev teams at MS had personal meetings with people about this and they promised to make improvements. But those improvements never happened. Instead the MS people were reassigned to something else. And we're still suffering with the result.
At this point, I'm with Jens Samson - I've lost faith...
At present, various developed UI controls of visual studio are difficult to save and manage, so it is often necessary to find and copy some controls once written everywhere, which makes developers spend a lot of time on a lot of repetitive work