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Xamarin.Forms Comes to Surface Duo and Surface Neo

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20

Shikha Kaul

Today we are announcing the preview availability of our cross-platform dual-screen support for the Surface Duo and Surface Neo, two new and amazing devices coming from the Surface team. Previously, we debuted Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.Forms support for the SDK for Surface Duo. Now that the Windows team has unveiled support for the Surface ...

Code Navigation for CMake Scripts

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20

Shikha Kaul

Visual Studio 2019 16.5 Preview 2 makes it easy to make sense of complex CMake projects. Code navigation features such as Go To Definition and Find All References are now supported for variables, functions, and targets in CMake script files. This can be a huge timesaver because CMake projects with more than a handful of source files are often ...

AndroidX NuGet Packages are Stable! (Xamarin)

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20

Shikha Kaul

Last year, we introduced AndroidX for Xamarin. In addition to that, today we are happy to bring you stable AndroidX NuGet packages...

Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20

Shikha Kaul

Have you ever found yourself debugging a .NET project or memory dump only to be confronted with a No Symbols Loaded page? Or maybe experienced an exception occurring in a 3rd party .NET assembly but had no source code to figure out why? You can now use Visual Studio to decompile managed code even if you don’t have the symbols, allowing you ...

Making our Unity Analyzers Open-Source

February 25, 2020 Feb 25, 2020 02/25/20

Shikha Kaul

Here at the Visual Studio Tools for Unity team our mission is to improve the productivity of Unity developers. In Visual Studio 2019 we’ve introduced our Unity Analyzers, a collection of Unity specific code diagnostics and code fixes. Today we’re excited to make our Unity Analyzers Open-Source...