{"id":226776,"date":"2019-10-15T10:41:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=226776"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:30:33","slug":"fall-sports-pumpkin-spice-and-visual-studio-2019-v16-4-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/fall-sports-pumpkin-spice-and-visual-studio-2019-v16-4-preview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 2, Fall Sports, and Pumpkin Spice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fall
Fall Colors on Microsoft Campus in Redmond<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Here at our Redmond campus in the Pacific Northwest, we are cloaked with a brilliant display of fall colors and team members walking around in their favorite American football jerseys often with coffee in hand.\u00a0 While I may not have confirmed, I suspect fall flavors are hinted in the steamy beverages.<\/p>\n

The <\/span>Microsoft Ignite conference<\/span><\/a> is <\/span>approaching<\/span> in early November, and our annual <\/span>Giving Campaign<\/span><\/a> has <\/span>us looking for ways to <\/span>make community and global impact<\/span>.\u00a0 All of this is to say, <\/span>we are anticipating an exciting season of bettering our world and our Visual Studio product<\/span>s<\/span>.<\/span> Along those lines, we <\/span>are proud to release<\/span> Visual Studio 2019 <\/span>version <\/span>16.4 <\/span>Preview 2 <\/span>w<\/span>ith some new features in <\/span>the <\/span>IDE,<\/span> C++<\/span>, Container Tools,<\/span> and GitHub <\/span>integration.<\/span><\/p>\n

W<\/span>hile I give an overview of these new features, why not<\/span> downloaded <\/span>the most recent version <\/span>from <\/span>VisualS<\/span>tudio.com<\/span><\/a> and check out these features for yourself?<\/span> As always, our <\/span>release notes<\/span><\/a> give even greater detail.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Change Your Tabs to a Vertical Layout<\/h5>\n

I was recently in training and happened to meet one of the designers who had just completed work on this feature<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 H<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span> couldn\u2019t wait <\/span><\/span>for developers to give <\/span><\/span>this part of our product a try<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 The choice to display <\/span><\/span>tabs in a vertical layout was o<\/span><\/span>ne of the <\/span><\/span>most requested features<\/span><\/span><\/a> from former Custom Document Well extension <\/span><\/span>and Developer Community users<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 After add<\/span><\/span>itional<\/span><\/span> customer research to identify <\/span><\/span>pain points in document management, we have identified several areas of improvements<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span>The <\/span><\/span><\/span>vertical<\/span><\/span><\/span> tab<\/span><\/span> implementation <\/span><\/span>starting in Visual Studio 2019 <\/span><\/span>v<\/span><\/span><\/span>16.4 <\/span><\/span>Preview 2 <\/span><\/span>is <\/span><\/span>one step in many to <\/span><\/span>deeply improve <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>document management<\/span><\/span> experience<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Below<\/span><\/span> is a quick example of how the new feature looks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Shows
Change your tabs to a vertical layout<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Container Tools Window<\/h5>\n

Until now, this feature has only been available as an extension in the <\/span>Visual Studio Marketplace<\/span>.\u00a0 After great usage and reviews, we have brought the functionality into the IDE itself<\/span>.\u00a0 This new tool<\/span> window <\/span>enables<\/span>\u00a0you <\/span>to list<\/span>, inspect, stop, start<\/span> and remove Docker images and <\/span>containers on a local machine<\/span>. In addition, you can <\/span>view folders and files in running containers and open a terminal window<\/span>.<\/span> Finally, you can view, stream, and search container logs.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Container Tools Window<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Terminal Window Updates<\/h5>\n

Continuing the theme of general improvements, we’ve added the ability to create multiple terminal instances and automatically create profiles for the Developer Command Prompt, Developer PowerShell and any WSL distributions available on your machine.\u00a0 The automatic profile creation will happen on first launch or through the profiles restore button.<\/p>\n

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Overview Pages for CMake Projects<\/h5>\n

We have added Overview Pages for <\/span>CMake<\/span> projects to help you get started with cross-platform development. These pages are dynamic and help you install the Linux Workload, connect to a remote Linux system or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and add a Linux or WSL configuration to your <\/span>CMake<\/span> project. If you are just getting started with Linux development in Visual Studio, I recommend trying our <\/span>native support for WSL<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/span>lso, a<\/span> navigational feature <\/span>has been added to the<\/span> launch drop-down menu <\/span>so that<\/span> CMake<\/span> projects will display your most recently used target<\/span>s.\u00a0 <\/span>Plus, with the ability to filter from this location, <\/span>finding what you are looking for becomes simpler.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Symbol Search Enabled for C++<\/h5>\n

We<\/span>\u2019ve continued<\/span> to<\/span> expand our search <\/span>capabilities by adding<\/span> symbol search <\/span>support<\/span> for C++<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>You will now be able to searc<\/span>h <\/span>for types and members in addition files within the search control.\u00a0 <\/span>Results<\/span> are refined <\/span>dynamically as each letter of your search query is typed<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>You <\/span>can <\/span>access<\/span> code <\/span>search <\/span>through our single <\/span>search <\/span>s<\/span>hortcut (<\/span>Ctrl+Q<\/strong>) <\/span>in<\/span> the <\/span>search box <\/span>centered <\/span>at the top of <\/span>Visual Studio<\/span>, or <\/span>view<\/span> focused code related results only by<\/span> clicking on the<\/span> Code<\/strong> group<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.NET Tooling<\/h5>\n

You can now configure the severity level of a code style rule directly through the error list. <\/span>Place your cursor on the error, warning, or suggestion. Right click and select Set severity<\/strong>. Next, select the severity level you would like to configure for that rule. As a result, this will update your existing <\/span>EditorConfig<\/span> with the rule\u2019s new severity. This also works for third party analyzers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Configure
Set the severity level of a code style rule<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

In addition, we are<\/span> continuously<\/span> adding <\/span>provisioning and publishing <\/span>support for <\/span>popular Azure services. In this preview we added support for provisioning Application I<\/span>nsights from within <\/span>the dependencies section of publish profiles.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Add dependencies to Azure services<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Publish to GitHub Support<\/span><\/h5>\n

Finally, another extension <\/span>with functionality <\/span>making its way into <\/span>Visual Studio 2019<\/span> product itself<\/span> is the<\/span> previous<\/span>ly available<\/span> GitHub Extension<\/span>.<\/span> This <\/span>developer favorite <\/span>allows <\/span>enables <\/span>seamless interaction with GitHub repositories. Publish those local <\/span>repositories by simply clicking the Publish to GitHub<\/strong> button on the Team Explorer Synchronization page.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pin Properties in Debugger<\/h5>\n

[Update 10\/16] It looks like there was an error going live with this feature.\u00a0 Thank you very much for giving us feedback, and we hope you look forward to trying this new addition in our next preview release.\u00a0 Sneak Peek!<\/p>\n

Identifying objects by their properties while debugging has just become easier and more discoverable with the new Pinnable Properties tool.\u00a0 In short, hover over a property you want to display in the debugger window of the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows, click that pin icon, and immediately see the information you are looking for at the top of your display!<\/p>\n

\"Pin
Pin Properties in Debugger<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Give it a try and let us know what you think<\/span><\/h5>\n

Hopefully<\/span>,<\/span> these features make you as excited as your favorite tea<\/span>m putting a few points on the scoreboard.\u00a0 If so, <\/span>head on over to our <\/span>downloads page<\/span><\/a> and as always, we love to hear your feedback<\/span> on our <\/span>Visual Studio Developer Community<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If you <\/span>run into any complications, our <\/span>Report a Problem<\/span><\/a> tool in Visual Studio is the best way to <\/span>get the attention of our teams<\/span>.\u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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