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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:  For...
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A Year of C++ Game Development Improvements in Visual Studio

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

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 ...

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 ...