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January 2021 - Visual Studio news feed

Improvements to the new Razor editor in Visual Studio

January 27, 2021 Jan 27, 2021 01/27/21
Sachin Thakur
It’s been six months since we announced the first preview of a new experimental Razor editor for Visual Studio based on a common Razor language server and it’s time to give an update on our progress. The team has been hard at work bringing the new Razor editor up to parity with the old one, fixing bugs, and adding lots of great new ...

Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio

January 27, 2021 Jan 27, 2021 01/27/21
Sachin Thakur
In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 we added support for deploying CMake projects to a remote Windows machine and debugging them with the Visual Studio remote tools. CMake developers targeting ARM64 Windows can now cross-compile (with cl or clang-cl), deploy, and debug their projects directly from Visual Studio...

Software development in 2021 and beyond

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Sachin Thakur
Software development in 2021 and beyond - An article by Amanda Silver on how we can come together to grow and support developer talent amid unprecedented demand, improve developer inclusivity and velocity, and help engineering teams scale-out through open source and low-code tools...

Inspecting application metrics with dotnet-monitor

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Sachin Thakur
dotnet-monitor is a command line tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process. In the episode, Rich is joined by Sourabh who explains to us the importance of gathering application diagnostics and also gives us a demo of how to run dotnet-monitor in Kubernetes...

Diagnostics improvements in .NET 5

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Sachin Thakur
Building upon the diagnostics improvements we introduced in .NET Core 3.0, we’ve been hard at work further improving this space. We are excited to introduce the next wave of diagnostics improvements...

Announcing TypeScript 4.2 Beta

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Sachin Thakur
We’re excited to hear your thoughts on TypeScript 4.2! With the beta we’re still in relatively early stages, but we’re counting on your feedback to help make this an excellent release...

A more integrated terminal experience

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Sachin Thakur
As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste...