Visual Studio Blog

A Streamlined Extension Manager comes to Visual Studio 17.9

February 21, 2024 Feb 21, 2024 02/21/24

Maia Kelner

Over the last year, we’ve been building a better Extension Manager for Visual Studio that makes it easier for you to find and install great extensions. Along the way, we’ve invited Visual Studio Preview users to try out the new design and share their feedback with us. Using all that amazing feedback, we added features, made improvements, ...

VisualStudio.Extensibility: Install extensions without restarting Visual Studio!

February 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024 02/20/24

Maia Kelner

The new VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK helps you build extensions that run outside of the main IDE process for improved performance and reliability. With a focus on developer productivity, it features a modern, intuitive .NET Core-based API and solid, well-maintained documentation. This public preview release builds on our previous ...

Last Chance: Visual Studio LIVE! – Las Vegas

February 16, 2024 Feb 16, 2024 02/16/24

Jim Harrer

Less than 3 weeks to go! Join Us at Visual Studio LIVE! Las Vegas Are you at the forefront of driving business innovation using Visual Studio? With our room block running low, decide today to secure your spot at Visual Studio LIVE! Las Vegas. This event is your prime opportunity to enhance your skills and gain insights into new technologies, ...

Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 1 is Here!

February 14, 2024 Feb 14, 2024 02/14/24

Mark Downie

We're excited to introduce the first preview of Visual Studio 17.10! This is where we get to show you what we've been working on and what we’re planning, and with feedback from the most active developer community on the planet, we get to deliver truly compelling products. During this release you’ll get to check out our latest ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.9 Now Available

February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24

Maddy Montaquila

Welcome to Visual Studio 2022 17.9! This release comes with more capabilities and improvements that enhance productivity for you and your team, such as AI-assistance and better extensibility. Plus, we're always improving core productivity and performance! We’ve included suggestions from you in the community and are publishing more about our ...

A Look Back: Visual Studio’s Profiling Tool Advancements in 2023

February 12, 2024 Feb 12, 2024 02/12/24

Harshada Hole

In retrospect, the past year our team was on a mission to enhance Profiling tools, making them more efficient and user-friendly. We improved instrumentation and our .NET counter tool, broadened platform support, seamlessly integrated unit test profiling, and boosted overall performance. Your valuable feedback via Developer Community was ...

2023’s Top 10 New Features for .NET in Visual Studio

February 8, 2024 Feb 8, 2024 02/8/24

Jason Chlus, James Montemagno

The .NET team has been working hard all through 2023 to create innovative features to enhance the productivity and experience of .NET developers. This blog dives into James Montemagno's favorite new .NET features in Visual Studio.  I was particularly interested in Dev Tunnels. One of the standout features introduced in Visual Studio during...

Developing With Accessibility in Mind at Microsoft  

February 7, 2024 Feb 7, 2024 02/7/24

Nandita Gupta

December 3rd was celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, or IDPWD, to bring awareness and understanding of the issues that people with disabilities face around the world. At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and that includes empowering ...

In the Debugger’s Spotlight: A Year in Review

January 31, 2024 Jan 31, 2024 01/31/24

Harshada Hole

Reflecting on the past year's journey, our team was on a mission to enhance debugging tools, ensuring they became more efficient and user-friendly. We dedicated our efforts to boosting inner-loop productivity, making external source debugging more seamless, improving overall performance, and optimizing memory analysis. And, of course, we were ...

A Year of C++ Improvements in Visual Studio

January 30, 2024 Jan 30, 2024 01/30/24

Sy Brand

As we enter the new year, it’s a good time to look back at all the features and improvements we made for C++ developers in Visual Studio in 2023. We’ve made advancements across the IDE, toolchain, and the vcpkg package manager in both performance and functionality. Some focus areas have been ARM64 support, Unreal Engine development, code ...