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AI-assisted Coding Comes to Java in Visual Studio IntelliCode

November 12, 2018 Nov 12, 2018 11/12/18
Xiaokai He
Visual Studio IntelliCode is a set of AI-assisted capabilities that aims to improve developer productivity with features like contextual IntelliSense, code formatting and style rule inference. During SpringOne 2018, we announced that we will bring those productivity boosters to Java developers and now we’re happy to introduce AI-assisted IntelliSense to Java with IntelliCode Extension for VS Code.

What’s Next for Visual Studio for Mac

October 16, 2018 Oct 16, 2018 10/16/18
Unni Ravindranathan
Since it was released a little more than a year ago, Visual Studio 2017 for Mac has grown from being an IDE primarily focused on mobile application development using Xamarin to one that includes support for all major .NET cross-platform workloads including Xamarin, Unity, and .NET Core. Our aspiration with Visual Studio for Mac is to bring the...

Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update

October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018 10/15/18
Visual Studio Blog
Update: Launch is now scheduled for mid-November to ensure you have the best blog experience. We appreciate all of the feedback so far and we look forward to showing what we’ve been working on! In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it ...

Simplify extension development with PackageReference and the VSSDK meta package

October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18
Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 made it possible to use the PackageReference syntax to reference NuGet packages in Visual Studio Extensibility (VSIX) projects. This makes it much simpler to reason about NuGet packages and opens the door for having a complete meta package containing the entire VSSDK. Before using PackageReference, here’s ...

Introducing ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Developer Community

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
John Montgomery
Customer feedback is a critical input to help us improve Visual Studio. Up until two years ago, the Visual Studio customer feedback system left room for improvement – customers could use the “send a smile” feature in Visual Studio, but this would result in only coarse-grained feedback such as “I like this” or “I don’t like this...