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Improving Visual Studio performance with the new Instrumentation Tool

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23
Nik Karpinsky
Summary With the release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 we are shipping our new and improved Instrumentation Tool in the Performance Profiler. Unlike the CPU Usage tool, the Instrumentation tool gives exact timing and call counts which can be super useful in spotting blocked time and average function time. To show off the tool let’s use...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Debug Threads & Tasks with Parallel Stacks

April 6, 2023 Apr 6, 2023 04/6/23
Leslie Richardson
The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling in and out of Visual Studio.  Our latest episodes of VS Toolbox (available both on Learn and YouTube) feature Mark Downie and Ramkumar Ramesh from the Visual Studio Diagnostics team. They demonstrate how you can use the Threads and Tasks views ...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Integrated C++ Game Development

March 23, 2023 Mar 23, 2023 03/23/23
Leslie Richardson
The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling both in and outside of Visual Studio. The show is available both on Learn and YouTube. Our latest episode features C++ program manager David Li, who shows how you can use the new Unreal Engine Integrations in Visual Studio 2022 17.5 to be more ...

GitHub Copilot chat for Visual Studio 2022

March 22, 2023 Mar 22, 2023 03/22/23
Mark Wilson-Thomas
GitHub Copilot has become a trusted AI-assisted pair programmer helping to auto-complete comments and code more productively. That’s just the beginning though! We’ve been working to evolve Copilot to move beyond code completion and provide enhanced AI assistance that you can access throughout your development lifecycle, whatever task you ...

Streamlining your Debugging process with Breakpoint Groups

March 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023 03/21/23
Harshada Hole
Have you ever had a situation when you are debugging a complex scenario with a huge list of breakpoints, and you find yourself scrolling and tapping in the breakpoints windows to disable/enable them individually and repetitively? Then the new Breakpoint Groups feature in Visual Studio may be the answer for you. This feature will allow you ...

Upgrading from IntelliCode custom team completions models to deep learning.

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23
Aaron Yim
TL;DR – A deep learning model will now help provide starred completions for custom methods in the IntelliSense list. All users of Visual Studio 2022 will receive this improvement automatically. With original IntelliCode, a custom trained model was previously useful for ranking custom methods in a user’s code. When IntelliCode first ...

Help us investigate a new Welcome Experience in Visual Studio 17.6 Preview 2

March 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 03/16/23
Grace Taylor
A central theme across Visual Studio releases is 'get to code' quickly. Over the years, we’ve tried many approaches to accelerate start up, project selection or creation, and restoration of previous state. In Visual Studio 2019 we created the modal 'start window' experience that optimized for getting to the primary action most developers ...

Improving the Spell Checker

March 15, 2023 Mar 15, 2023 03/15/23
Dante Gagne
Welcome to our latest blog post about the spell checker feature in Visual Studio 17.6 preview 2! We're excited to share with you the latest improvements we've made to this feature, which was first introduced in the Visual Studio 17.5 preview releases for C#, C++, and markdown files. We've received an overwhelming amount of valuable feedback ...