Visual Studio

Do you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of breakpoints in your Visual Studio project? Wish you could categorize and toggle them on and off with ease? The new breakpoint group feature in Visual Studio 2022 is here to transform your debugging experie...

We’re excited to share the latest changes in Visual Studio’s code coverage components. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out our previous blog posts: What’s New in Our Code Coverage Tooling? and Code coverage features in Visual Studio En...

One of our main goals is to help you and your team collaborate more effectively and efficiently on your software projects. That’s why we are constantly improving our Version Control features, especially the ones related to the pull request workfl...

The .NET Smart Components are now open source to help library authors build and share easy-to-use AI-powered features, including new AI-powered components from Telerik, DevExpress, and Syncfusion. The post Join the .NET Smart Components ecosystem appea...

Learn about the latest GitHub Copilot improvements for C# developers The post Improving GitHub Copilot Completions in Visual Studio for C# Developers appeared first on .NET Blog.

Are you tired of the hassle of manually configuring your development environment every time you want to launch multiple projects? We’ve heard your feedback and are thrilled to announce a feature in Visual Studio that simplifies your workflow. The...

Are you developing .NET applications for Arm-based processors? Do you want to take advantage of the performance and power efficiency of running your apps natively on Arm64 devices? If so, you’ll be happy to hear that Visual Studio 2022 17.11 has ...

Visual Studio 2022 introduced a new XAML designer for building WPF apps, with a goal of increasing the performance and reliability of the designer. The new designer can quickly open a XAML file by using WPF’s built-in parser and display. This new des...

We are excited to announce the latest Visual Studio 2022 17.12 Build Insights features. These updates provide developers with greater control and accuracy when diagnosing and optimizing C++ builds directly within Visual Studio. Download Visual Studio 2...

Introducing a new way to build and deploy Android Asset Packs using .NET for Android and .NET MAUI. If your app has allot of AndroidAsset items this feature will make your life easier. The post Android Asset Packs for .NET & .NET MAUI Android Apps ...

  As always our team will be at CppCon this year with a host of presentations. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the main hall for the first four days of the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions ...

Take an in-depth tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 9. The post Performance Improvements in .NET 9 appeared first on .NET Blog.

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! VisualStudio.Extensibility helps you build extensions that run outside the main Visual Studio IDE pr...

Try out the latest features in .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 across the .NET SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, SignalR, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 9 Release Candidate 1 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.

In this post, you'll learn how to use AI models on GitHub. The post GitHub Models and .NET: Building Generative AI apps for engineers appeared first on .NET Blog.

Stuck on an unfamiliar build error? Want to resolve your code errors quickly? Copilot is now integrated into Visual Studio error workflows to assist you with understanding and resolving C++ errors and warnings. To access this new feature, you will need...

If you’re working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You might be looking for a specific class, method, or variable, but end up scrolling throug...

Learn all about the Blazor Hybrid workshop that you can follow yourself or teach to others! The post Learn to Build Your First Blazor Hybrid App! appeared first on .NET Blog.

Before .NET 9, the debugger was unable to track exceptions thrown from user-code async methods into non-user code framework methods, such as ASP.NET middleware. We are pleased to announce that you will now start seeing the debugger stop for these user-...

vcpkg is a free and open-source C/C++ package manager maintained by Microsoft and the C++ community that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Over the years we have heard from companies using vcpkg to manage dependencies at enterprise-scale. In this inte...