Over the last 12 months, we made many improvements to the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience in Visual Studio so that you can run both your front-end and back-end together within one click in one place. You might have seen the updates but in this blog post we will detail the new and improved features now available when working with Java...
Syntax highlighting, aka colorization, is one of Visual Studio's essential features; it uses colors and styles to help guide our brains when reading code. Following this Developer Community suggestion, we decided to work on improving the JavaScript and TypeScript experience! Starting from 17.6 we improved existing colorization and expanded it to...
Available today in the 17.4 public release, Visual Studio has revamped its ESLint support! The new linting experience includes: But the main purpose of this post is not to list all of the cool things that the new linting service provides, but to tell you a little bit about the story behind it. I joined Microsoft at the begin...
Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 releases today with several new features to help developer productivity. Check out our improved Git integration, .NET Productivity features, plus so much more!
You can now debug JavaScript running in the next version of Microsoft Edge, built with Chromium, directly from Visual Studio! In this post, we walk through creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using React.js and show you how to set breakpoints and debug your client-side JavaScript code running in Edge with Visual Studio.
Today we're excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.
Today we're excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or...
Collaborating with your team using Visual Studio Live Share keeps getting easier! Since making Live Share available for the public use at BUILD last May, we've heard so much great feedback from our users, which has helped guide us in continuing to build a tool that truly enables developers to collaborate in all the ways they need from the comfort o...
At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference. IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive AI-as...
For this release of Visual Studio for Mac, we've focused our energy on improving product reliability, creating a better code editing experience, and making the performance second to none. We're also exited to announce full support for Azure functions - it's now possible to create, edit, configure, and publish your Function from within the IDE.