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In Visual Studio 2012, the we introduced a new debug engine code-named “Concord”. In Visual Studio 2012, Concord was used only for native debugging. Starting with Visual Studio 2013, Concord is used for managed debugging as well.Concord is designed to be a collection of many components working together to form the debug engine. Thi...

All Visual Studio Online Git repos now support Git-LFS, with unlimited free storage! Git-LFS is an extension to Git that replaces large files in your repo with placeholder files, and stores the contents of those large files in a separate store on the server.  This allows you to add binary files to a repo without creating a lot of bloat in...

By now, hopefully you’ve heard about the new Visual Studio Emulator for Android, which is available as a standalone download for Eclipse and Android Studio users. Today, we’re issuing an update that addresses some of your top requests, including network simulation and improved screenshot functionality. Let’s take a look at what you can expect from ...

The Concurrency Visualizer is a tool for Visual Studio that allows you to analyze and improve performance of multi-threaded Windows Desktop applications. See the MSDN documentation for more information on using the Concurrency Visualizer. The Concurrency Visualizer was included with Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012, and in Visual Studio 20...

Our goal is to provide a Git experience that works for different engineering systems and teams, while making it easy to use. Today, we're announcing improvements to Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, and Team Foundation Server that help us reach that goal. This isn't a comprehensive list of the Git enhancements we're making, but it will give...

In your normal edit->compile->debug workflow, you will generally use the Debug build configuration. Debug builds compile code to keep the executable machine code as close to the original source as possible to ensure an optimal debugging experience. This however can come at the expense of performance, both memory and speed. Conversely, when you chan...

In this blog post I’m going to talk about IntelliTrace’s default configuration and the ability to opt-in to capture method call information. If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its improved UI. If you’re not already familiar with IntelliTrac...

With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine code before being deployed to customer devices using .NET Native. However, the default Debug configuration still uses .NET Core runtime to allow for a f...

If you upgraded your Windows 10 machine from an earlier version of Windows 10, and are running Visual Studio 2015, this post describes a workaround to a known issue. If you installed Windows 10 cleanly, or upgraded directly from Windows 7 or 8.x, then there is no issue, feel free to skip this post. Once again, thanks to the efforts of users filing...

Visual Studio offers the ability to measure your code’s complexity and maintainability with the Code Metrics window. See the MSDN documentation for more information. In 2011, we introduced a PowerTool that allows you to gather these same measurements from the command-line. This enables straightforward integration of these metrics into the bui...