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Jun 11, 2019
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Create a private gallery for self-hosted Visual Studio extensions

Mads Kristensen

Most Visual Studio extension authors publish their extensions to the public Marketplace to allow everyone to install them and benefit from the large and open ecosystem. However, some companies create extensions for internal use only. A private gallery allows them to distribute these extensions with ease.

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Jun 10, 2019
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Customize object displays in the Visual Studio debugger YOUR way

Leslie Richardson

Did you know that you can view objects by more than just their types in the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows? Learn how you can customize your object views in debugger windows using DebuggerDisplay and Natvis!

Visual StudioDebugging and DiagnosticsC#
Jun 4, 2019
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Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community

Sean

In October 2018, we shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with hundreds of those shipped in Visual Studio. Thank you for making the move and continuing to help us improve the functionality in Visual Studio!

Visual StudioVisual Studio 2017Visual Studio 2019
May 30, 2019
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Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2019

Varun Gupta

Performance has been a big focus area for Visual Studio 2019, with improvements in many areas. We welcome you to try Visual Studio 2019 either with your own projects or with Roslyn Compilers projects we used as examples above and see how it compares to Visual Studio 2017 for your scenarios. We are always looking for more feedback to know which

May 29, 2019
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Visual Studio Extensibility Day 2019 was a hit

Mads Kristensen

On Friday, May 10th we hosted both internal and external Visual Studio extension authors in the Workshop room in building 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond. It was a full day event with keynotes and sessions for 60 attendees – half of which attended //build earlier that same week, and half who came just for the Extensibility Day.

Visual StudioExtensions
May 28, 2019
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Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement

Erich(Renyong) Wang

We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the new Azure IoT Edge Tools Extension (Preview) for Visual Studio 2019. The extension provides a rich set of functionalities to support development of IoT Edge solutions with Visual Studio 2019: Prerequisites Installation There are two option...

ExtensionsVisual Studio 2019Azure IoT Edge
May 22, 2019
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Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 now generally available (and 16.2 Preview 1 as well)

Mads Kristensen

Today, we are making Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 generally available, as well as the first preview release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2. You can download both versions from VisualStudio.com. If you already have Preview installed, you can alternatively click the notification bell from inside Visual Studio to update.

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May 20, 2019
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Code Reviews Using the Visual Studio Pull Requests Extension

Taysser Gherfal

The Pull Requests for Visual Studio is a new experimental extension that adds several code review tools to Visual Studio. This extension aims to make it easy for you to launch and view pull requests inside the integrated development environment (IDE) without needing to switch windows or use the web.

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May 20, 2019
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Updates to synchronous autoload of extensions in Visual Studio 2019

Mads Kristensen

Visual Studio 2019 starts blocking synchronously autoloaded extensions in version 16.1. We’ve seen a tremendous effort of both 1st- and 3rd-party extensions to implement async background load. It’s been truly amazing to see the community of extension authors stepping up to the task.

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May 13, 2019
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General Availability For Azure Dev Spaces

Lisa Guthrie

Last week at Build, we announced general availability of Azure Dev Spaces. This add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enables your team to develop applications with cloud velocity. Run your service in a live AKS cluster and test it end-to-end, without affecting your teammates.

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