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New Updates for Azure Development in Visual Studio

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Cristy Gonzalez
With Microsoft Build 2018 in the books, we just released a series of updates to Visual Studio for Azure Development. This improves productivity and security for developers building and diagnosing web applications, containers and microservices. To help you make the most of these new advancements for developing in the Azure cloud, we've compiled...

Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace

May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18
Deborah Chen
Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.

Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18
Mads Kristensen
The Visual Studio team partners with extension authors to provide a productive development environment for users, who rely on a rich ecosystem of quality extensions. Today, we're introducing an update to extension auto load based on feedback from our community of developers, who need to quickly start Visual Studio and load their solution while...

Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together

May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18
Jb Evain
The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It's the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can read the full blog post by Unity for all the details on what’s new in the 2018.1 release. First and foremost, we're thrilled Unity chose ...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Visual Studio Blog
Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we're excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. We have also continued to bring more Visual Studio 2017 ...

Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Amanda Silver
Learn how Visual Studio IntelliCode brings you next generation developer productivity via AI-assisted development, tailored to your code context. Try it out by downloading the experimental extension for Visual Studio 2017 that provides AI-powered IntelliSense.

Azure Storage Explorer Generally Available

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18
Visual Studio Blog
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer. Storage Explorer provides easy management of Azure Storage accounts and contents, including Blobs, Files, Queues, and Table entities. For example, you can easily manage your Azure Virtual Machines disks as Blobs. Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake are ...