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Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot at GDC 2024

March 19, 2024 Mar 19, 2024 03/19/24

David Li

Join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for a special session on using Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot. In this session, you will learn how to leverage these tools to increase your productivity and modernize your game development workflow.

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio: A Recap of 2023

March 14, 2024 Mar 14, 2024 03/14/24

Amy Nguyen

In the rapidly evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. The introduction of AI in Visual Studio, particularly GitHub Copilot, has revolutionized the way developers code. With Copilot integrated into Visual Studio, you can leverage AI to streamline your workflows, manage large codebases, analyze exceptions...

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here!

March 12, 2024 Mar 12, 2024 03/12/24

Mark Downie

We hope you all enjoyed the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio 17.10, and now we have even more to share! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your code reviews with Copilot, diagnostics improvements, as well as additional Extensibility and WinForms enhancements. Browse this list ...

Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.9: A Comprehensive Update for C++ Developers

March 7, 2024 Mar 7, 2024 03/7/24

Mryam Girmay

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 introduces a host of new features and improvements for C++ developers. Now, you can use the Memory Layout feature to visualize the memory layout of your classes, structs, and unions directly in the editor. Additionally, the #include Diagnostics feature provides insights into the frequency of element usage from ...

Visual Studio Subscriptions – A Product Manager’s Journey

March 5, 2024 Mar 5, 2024 03/5/24

Jacqueline Widdis

I stared at my Visual Studio Subscriptions portal with a somewhat blank distance in my eyes as a feeling of inadequacy spread like the misty rains I’ve experienced in the Pacific Northwest. If you haven't been here, they are the kind that slowly permeate clothes with the intent of educating one on the difference between waterproof and water ...

Code coverage features in Visual Studio Enterprise

March 4, 2024 Mar 4, 2024 03/4/24

Faisal Hafeez

By using code coverage, you can find out where your testing needs improvement and make your software more robust and dependable. In this post, we will introduce the new features that we introduced to the Code Coverage Results window in Visual Studio Enterprise 2022. These features are:  These features are not available in...

WinForms Designer Selection for 32-bit .NET Framework Projects 

February 29, 2024 Feb 29, 2024 02/29/24

Shyam Gupta

(image) Visual Studio 2022’s transition to a 64-bit architecture, driven by customer feedback across the full range of Visual Studio developers, marked a pivotal step towards enhancing the development experience. As Klaus Loffelmann describes in his blog post, this transition enhances overall performance and responsiveness, particularly ...

Visual Studio’s Full Year in Review (2023)

February 26, 2024 Feb 26, 2024 02/26/24

Jason Chlus

In 2023, we added many new features, fixes, and improvements to Visual Studio 2022 to make your coding experience more productive, enjoyable, and accessible. This blog post looks back at all the notable enhancements that shipped in 2023 for Visual Studio 2022. Here are the recaps for the year...

A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

February 23, 2024 Feb 23, 2024 02/23/24

Jason Chlus, David Li

Game development is evolving rapidly and keeping up with the latest trends is crucial. I’m thrilled that David Li took the time to highlight all the improvements added to Visual Studio for game developers during 2023. Check out his blog here.  The Unreal Engine integrations are where my eyes jumped to first. There is now an Unreal Engine...

Using Copilot Chat with C++ in Visual Studio: Generate code, fix functions, and more..

February 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024 02/22/24

Sinem Akinci

GitHub Copilot Chat is now available in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for users with an active subscription. Copilot Chat is an AI pair-programmer that allows you to speak in natural language through the chat interface to accomplish programming tasks such as understanding sections of code, generating test cases, and generating code. We ...