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Turbocharge your Visual Studio experience with Microsoft Dev Box

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23
Ruben Rios
Microsoft Dev Box is a managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure & ready-to-code workstations in the cloud. It gives companies the ability to pre-configure the development environment with all the tools needed to build, test, and deploy applications making developers more productive, regardless ...

Sticky Scroll: Stay in the Right Context

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Leah Tran
When coding in a long file, it’s easy to lose track of the method or block you’re writing in. Or when scrolling through an unfamiliar codebase, it can become disorienting where you are in the code. Sticky Scroll can help you stay in the right context by sticking helpful scopes, including namespaces, classes, methods, loop initialization...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1 is here!

May 17, 2023 May 17, 2023 05/17/23
Taysser Gherfal
Welcome to the Visual Studio Public Preview 1 of version 17.7! This exciting update offers a wide range of productivity enhancements tailored to the diverse needs of developers. Experience the cutting-edge improvements of Visual Studio and discover what lies ahead in this Preview release before it becomes widely available.

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.6 Now Available

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23
Marian Luparu
In the sprint to the BUILD 2023 conference, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Visual Studio version 17.6 today. This latest release delivers a range of powerful tools and features designed to empower you in crafting cutting-edge applications and experiences. The user-friendly environment, along with essential features like...

Surround selection experiment

May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23
Mads Kristensen
You want to quickly select some text and surround it with quotation marks. So, you select your text and hit the quotation mark key on your keyboard, only to find that the selected text now has been replaced by a single “. What you hoped would happen was that the selected text would be surrounded by an opening and closing quotation mark like ...

Visual Studio UI Refresh

May 10, 2023 May 10, 2023 05/10/23
authorsKaitlin Brooks, Cherry Wang, Dante Gagne
(image) Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems. ...

Web API development in Visual Studio 2022

May 1, 2023 May 1, 2023 05/1/23
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In Visual Studio 2022 one of the main scenarios for web developers is creating Web APIs with ASP.NET Core. In the latest preview of Visual Studio 2022, 17.6, we have added a number of updates to be more efficient when developing APIs. In this post we will go over a sample scenario of developing a new API from scratch and point out the new ...

Exploring JavaScript and TypeScript Development in Visual Studio

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23
Jiayan Chen
Over the last 12 months, we made many improvements to the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience in Visual Studio so that you can run both your front-end and back-end together within one click in one place. You might have seen the updates but in this blog post we will detail the new and improved features now available when working with...