Programming — Visual Studio — March 27th, 2024
11 VS Code extensions you didn’t know you needed
These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions aren't just for writing and editing code—though they'll also help you do that.
March 27th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — March 20th, 2024
10 neat tricks for Visual Studio Code
From simple shortcuts to expert-level configuration changes, here are 10 ways to get the most from Microsoft's open source programming editor.
March 20th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — March 18th, 2024
12 Visual Studio Code Extensions to improve your productivity and development workflow in 2024
Developers will know that having the right tools at your disposal can make a significant difference in your productivity and efficiency. Visual Studio Code, a popular code editor, offers a wide range of extensions that enhance its functionality and streamline your development workflow. In this article, we'll explore 12 must-have Visual Studio Code extensions that can boost your productivity in 2024.
March 18th, 2024 — Source
Workarounds Listed for Upcoming Visual Studio App Center Retirement
The company will retire Visual Studio App Center in a year, listing several workarounds to replace the package of integrated developer services for building, testing, releasing and monitoring mobile/desktop apps that itself replaced a tool called HockeyApp in 2019.
March 18th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — March 15th, 2024
Microsoft discontinues Visual Studio App Center
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Visual Studio App Center. The company has published a retirement notification on the Microsoft Learn website detailing the upcoming discontinuation of the service on March 31, 2025. App Center will remain supported for one more year, so expect it to receive critical bug fixes and technical support. However, Microsoft will block user sign-in and API calls after the specified date.
March 14th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — March 8th, 2024
JetBrains IDEs Finally Get GitHub Copilot Chat
GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in JetBrains IDEs after having reached general availability in Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code editor last December.
March 8th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — February 25th, 2024
NuGet 6.9 Released: dotnet Search Command Support and Visual Studio UI Multitargeting
In the latest release of NuGet version 6.9, developers can expect several new features and bug fixes which have been introduced. Among the key additions are enhancements to the multi-targeting experience within Visual Studio, and the incorporation of support for the dotnet search command.
February 25th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — February 21st, 2024
Copilot Chat Highlights Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 1
Advanced AI, specifically in the form of the GitHub Copilot Chat tool, leads the list of new goodies in Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 1, the latest iteration of the flagship IDE from Microsoft.
February 21st, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — February 7th, 2024
Microsoft Says VS Code Will Work with Ubuntu 18.04
If you're a user of Microsoft's VS Code and you're still using Ubuntu 18.04, you can breathe a sigh of release that the IDE will continue working... for a while.
February 7th, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — February 2nd, 2024
Devs Can Now Just Say 'Hey Code' to Start Copilot Chat in VS Code
Leveraging new accessibility functionality, a new voice command feature in Visual Studio Code lets devs initiate a session with GithHub Copilot Chat simply by saying "Hey Code."
February 2nd, 2024 — Source
Visual Studio Code adds 'Hey Code' voice command
New voice command in VS Code starts a voice session with Copilot Chat. Per-window zoom levels also arrive with January 2024 release.
February 2nd, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — January 31st, 2024
GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant for Visual Studio Code -- Beginners Guide
If you are learning to code or would like a little assistance on those harder areas of your script or application. You may be considering using Copilot to offer suggestions, helping you navigate complex functions, and even writing chunks of code for you. This isn't a distant dream—it's a reality for developers using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), thanks to GitHub Copilot.
January 31, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — January 24th, 2024
Microsoft Asks Devs About Visual Studio Pet Peeves: 'Don't Get Me Started'
Microsoft's Mads Kristensen took to social media to ask developers about their "pet peeves" with Visual Studio and got an earful in reply.
January 24, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — January 22nd, 2024
'All-in-One Search' Leads New Visual Studio Productivity Features
Microsoft's' string of productivity improvements in Visual Studio 2022 over the past year have continu
January 22, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — January 19th, 2024
Visual Studio upgrade boosts Code Search
Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 3 allows users to search for any word or string of characters across their codebase.
January 19, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — January 11th, 2024
TaskWeaver: A code-first agent framework for efficient data analytics and domain adaptation
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized human-machine interactions, particularly in natural language understanding and generation applications. These AI- or LLM-backed virtual assistants hold the promise of serving as intelligent agents capable of autonomously reasoning, observing, and performing tasks articulated in natural language.
January 11, 2024 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 22nd, 2023
NuGet 6.8 Released with Enhanced Security Features
Following the release of .NET 8.0, NuGet 6.8 was announced and is now included in Visual Studio 2022. NuGet 6.8 introduces significant enhancements, including NuGetAudit for package vulnerability notifications, an opt-out option for HTTPS Everywhere warnings, Package Source Mappings during installation/update via Package Manager UI, improved support for Conditional Package Updating in Visual Studio, and the addition of the ProtocolVersion argument to nuget source add.
December 22, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 21st, 2023
How to use IEnumerable, ICollection, IList, and IQueryable in C#
Understand the differences between the most commonly used interfaces for accessing and manipulating collections of data in C#.
December 21, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 15th, 2023
Visual Studio Devs Ask Santa for Debugging Gifts
Microsoft is always soliciting feedback to help guide its development tooling efforts, most recently asking developers to weigh in with their requests to Santa for new debugging functionality in the form of a "debug-tastic" gift.
December 15, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 14th, 2023
Microsoft embraces its inner penguin with Linux-powered Windows AI Studio
Visual Studio Code extension preview has a bunch of limitations for now
December 14, 2023 — Source
VS Code Used to Survey Go Devs, Who Name VS Code No. 1 Editor
As we have reported before, Microsoft's super-popular Visual Studio Code is the No. 1 code editor for multiple programming languages, and Google's Go is on that list.
December 14, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 12th, 2023
Visual Studio Dev Team Wraps 2023 with v17.9 Preview 2
The final 2023 effort from Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team is Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Preview 2, the second step on the long march to general availability.
December 12, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 11th, 2023
VS Code's Copilot 'AI Pair Programmer' Improves Chat UI, Explains Rust Code
In Visual Studio Code 1.85, the dev team has improved the GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" in several ways, including tweaking the chat UI and providing more support for the Rust programming language.
December 11, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — December 8th, 2023
Visual Studio Code introduces floating editor windows
Visual Studio Code 1.84 allows you to move editors or editor groups out of the main window into their own windows.
December 08, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 30th, 2023
Native Rust in Visual Studio Is Top Dev Request, but Progress Slow
The top open item for Visual Studio on Microsoft's Developer Community feedback site asks for native Rust support, but the company has taken little action on the years-old request.
November 30, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 29th, 2023
Copilot AI Takes Over Git Commits in Visual Studio 2022
Add "write Git commits" to the growing list of developer tasks in Visual Studio 2022 that are now being handled by AI.
November 29, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 27th, 2023
Visual Studio versus Visual Studio Code: How to choose
Choosing between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio may depend as much on your work style as on the language support and features you need. Here's how to decide.
November 27, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 16th, 2023
Finally Go Eyes On with Upcoming Visual Studio 2022 UI Refresh
Following the general availability of v17.8 this week, Microsoft published a couple blog posts on the first preview of the next edition and the first look at the upcoming UI refresh.
November 16, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 14th, 2023
GitHub Copilot Leads Productivity Gains in New Visual Studio 2022 17.8
In announcing Visual Studio 2022 17.8 today, Microsoft emphasized community-driven productivity gains among the new features and functionality.
November 14, 2023 — Source
Managing Dev Environments in Containers using Visual Studio Code
If you are interested in becoming a software developer or learning more about how to manage your developer environments in Visual Studio Code. This quick guide will provide more insight on the importance of a great development environment — that unique combination of tools, settings, and configurations that make your software creation process smooth and efficient.
November 14, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 3rd, 2023
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3: Structured Diagnostics, SQL Server Data Tools Upgrade and More
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 3. This version is focused mainly on addressing community feedback and resolved almost 100 tickets. Additionally, there are some new features: an "Update on Close" option, Unreal Engine macro specifier suggestions, structured diagnostics, and an upgrade in SQL Server Data Tools.
November 3, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — November 2nd, 2023
Visual Studio Code update emphasizes audio cues, Activity Bar
The upgrade also cites Python coding via extension and says goodbye to Windows 32 support.
November 2, 2023 — Source
VS Code Previews AI Topic Experts for Copilot Chat Called 'Agents'
The GitHub Copilot "AI pair programmer" in Visual Studio Code is getting new functionality including artificial topic experts called "Agents" who can help answer Chat questions with their specialized knowledge.
November 2, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — October 20th, 2023
Oracle Offers Java Language Server Tool for VS Code
Oracle announced a language server tool for Java developers using Visual Studio Code to provide language-specific "smarts" in the super-popular, open source-based, cross-platform code editor.
October 20, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — October 13th, 2023
Calls for Visual Studio security tweak fall on deaf ears despite one-click RCE exploit
Two years on and Microsoft refuses to address the issue
October 13, 2023 — Source
Visual Studio Code bolsters command search
A new section in VS Code's Command Palette search results lists similar commands. September release also introduces support for DWARF debugging of WebAssembly.
October 13, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — October 9th, 2023
Microsoft drops official support for Python 3.7 in Visual Studio Code
Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk
October 9, 2023 — Source
VS Code Update Improves Testing with GitHub Copilot AI
Microsoft improved testing with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for Visual Studio Code as part of the regular monthly update to the super-popular code editor.
October 9, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 29th, 2023
Visual Studio 'Tea & Technology' Video Miniseries Starts Next Week
Microsoft is adding to its vast trove of video developer resources with a new miniseries starting next week on the company's YouTube and Twitch channels.
September 29, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 25th, 2023
Community Dev Gives VS Code Python Some YAPF
The latest update to Python in Visual Studio Code includes a new extension for Python formatting that was contributed by a member of the open source community.
September 25, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 21st, 2023
Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2: Productivity, C++ Enhancements, and Debugging Improvements
Microsoft has released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8. Preview 2 brings a range of improvements and features aimed at enhancing developer productivity and code debugging as well as some additional C++ and Game Dev enhancements. The latest version is available for download, and developers have the opportunity to explore and utilise its advancements in the preview version.
September 21, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 14th, 2023
Mads K's Favorite Features in New Visual Studio 2022 17.8 Preview 2
That announcement post, published today (Sept. 14) shows enhancements across productivity, C++, .NET/C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, F#, debugging/diagnostics and enterprise management.
September 14, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 11th, 2023
What's New for GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code v1.82
The regular monthly update for August 2023 to Visual Studio Code, bringing the open source-based editor up to version 1.82, once again sees various improvements to GitHub Copilot, especially the Chat tool.
September 11, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — September 7th, 2023
The Visual Studio Magazine 2023 Reader's Choice Awards Are Out
Visual Studio Magazine readers for the 29th year have identified their favorite development tools used in the Microsoft-centric developer space in the 2023 Reader's Choice Awards.
September 7, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — August 30th, 2023
Microsoft kills Visual Studio for Mac
Microsoft has just announced the end of its Visual Studio for Mac. Version 17.6 is the final release, and it will get one more year of support with servicing updates and security fixes. After that, on August 31, 2024, the company will pull the plug on its IDE for macOS.
August 30, 2023 — Source or Source
Programming — Visual Studio — August 28th, 2023
Visual Studio Tool Lets Devs See Images, Not Just Text Strings
Microsoft's Mads Kristensen has a point: Developers working with images in Visual Studio must deal only with text strings that don't show the actual images.
August 28, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — August 11th, 2023
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques And Resources (Part 2)
In part 2 of the series, Hannah Milan reviews various accessible text over images techniques for designing your content, including framing the image, soft-colored gradients technique, text styles and text position, solid color shapes, and use of colored backgrounds.
August 11, 2023 — Source
Test My Code, Not My Limits
Writing testable code might seem like a task done for the sake of easier testing, but it goes beyond that. Sure, testable code does make the testing process smoother, but the benefits don't stop there.
August 11, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — August 9th, 2023
Visual Studio 2022 v17.7 Ships, Addressing a Top Longstanding Feature Request
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio 2022 v17.7 with a raft of new functionality, fixes and features, including some that have been in the making for years.
August 9, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — August 8th, 2023
Apache Kafka as Workflow and Orchestration Engine
Architectures and case studies for data streaming with the Apache Kafka ecosystem as stateful workflow orchestration and BPM engine.
August 8, 2023 — Source
Do's and Don'ts When Building an Internal Developer Platform
Here are some important things to remember when creating an IDP, including do's and don'ts and key considerations for building the platform.
August 8, 2023 — Source
How to add ChatGPT to Visual Code Studio for AI coding
In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence, the ChatGPT Genie AI extension stands out as a remarkable tool designed to streamline coding and problem-solving. This AI-powered assistant, developed by OpenAI, is equipped with a plethora of features that make it an indispensable asset for developers.
August 8, 2023 — Source
Microsoft Visual Studio Code flaw lets extensions steal passwords
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor and development environment contains a flaw that allows malicious extensions to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credential managers.
August 8, 2023 — Source
Visual Studio Code enhances diff editor, GitHub interop
With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default.
August 8, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — July 27th, 2023
VS Code Tool to Lead Stack Overflow's New 'OverflowAI' Effort
Stack Overflow announced its own generative AI initiative called OverflowAI, in which a new Visual Studio Code extension will play a central role.
July 27, 2023 — Source
Programming — Visual Studio — July 11th, 2023
VS Code June Update: Copilot AI Chat Creates Workspaces, Notebooks
Generative AI again takes center stage in the latest edition of Microsoft's open source-based Visual Studio Code editor, which advanced to version 1.8.0 in the June 2023 update. A highlight of the release is the ability to use the AI-powered GitHub Copilot coding assistant to quickly scaffold projects and notebooks.
July 11, 2023 — Source
Visual Studio Programming — Resources — Numbers
10+ powerful debugging tricks with Visual Studio
Debugging is a major part of the development lifecycle. Sometimes challenging, sometimes puzzling, sometimes annoying, one for sure — it is unavoidable for any not-so-trivial program. the progress of debugging tools over the last years has made many debugging tasks much easier and less time-consuming.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — B
Bridging the Performance Gap Between Apps and Games With My Rust Framework
Why games are fast while business apps are sluggish
May 12, 2023 — Source
Visual Studio Programming — Resources — E
Elastic tabstops — a better way to indent and align code
Since the days of the character mapped display, programmers have argued over whether tabs or spaces should be used to line up text. While both strategies can be used if all of a project's programmers can agree on how many spaces wide a tab should be, experience has taught us that this is not always the case. Even if all of the programmers working on a project are diligent enough to stick to only using tabs or spaces and have tabs set to the agreed number of spaces, there is still a problem if any programmers wish to use modern proportional fonts (because a space is no longer the same width as every other character).
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Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming
Today at TechEd, I announced Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server 2013 and many of the Application Lifecycle Management features that they include. Today, we enabled some of those features on Team Foundation Service for you to try out immediately and I announced that a preview of VS 2013 and TFS 2013 will be available at the Build conference later this month.
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Extensions by Mads Kristensen
In this episode, Robert is joined by Mads Kristensen, author of many of the most useful and cool Visual Studio extensions around. Mads shows the following extensions:
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — H
Hello Code, VS Code 0.9.1 that is...
With the recent VS Code update, VS Code v0.9.1 (October 2015), I'm going to make it a VS Code Theme week.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — K
Know your Node.js (and VS Code)
Continuing with our VS Code Theme, today I've got three items for you (well, one, okay, kind of three, or whatever... )
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — M
Manipulate URIs with Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class
Irina Medvinskaya explains how you use Visual Studio .NET's System.URI class to work with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). this class allows you to represent and easily manipulate a given URI.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — O
One of Microsoft's Best-Kept Secrets — Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS)
I've talked some about the sweet support for node and PHP in Azure. you can also File | new | Node.js express application in WebMatrix, or run WordPress and get intellisense as well.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — T
There's an Arduino in your VS Code...
The final post for the VS Code Theme week comes from the man, the myth, the legend in his own mind :) Fabien Royer.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — U
Using Java Build Script Tasks in Visual Studio Code
The shortcoming with Tasks was that you could only define one, which is (in my humble opinion) by design to help developers by forcing them to create a build script rather than setting up tasks, as a build script is not coupled to the IDE and can be used elsewhere.
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Visual Studio Programming — Resources — V
Visual Studio Live Share
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Visual Studio updates shine on C++, Git, Wasm, and DX
Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.
May 19, 2023 — Source
Visual Studio Programming — Resources — W
What's in Microsoft's New C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft announced the preview release of C# Dev Kit, a new extension for Visual Studio Code intended to improve the C# development experience on Linux, macOS, Windows and more.
June 23, 2023 — Source