Visual Studio stories

devblogs.microsoft.com · Oct 01, 2026

Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and

devblogs.microsoft.com · Sep 27, 2026

Today I will modernize a .NET Framework application to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization tooling built-in to Visual Studio. The tooling

devblogs.microsoft.com · Sep 25, 2026

If you've worked with Git submodules for any length of time, you probably have a love-hate relationship with them. They're genuinely useful for pulling a shared library, an SDK, or common build scripts into your project.

thomasclaudiushuber.com · Jun 09, 2026

With the launch of Visual Studio .NET in the year 2002, the solution file .sln was introduced. And since then, we were using that custom format to manage the projects that belong together to build an application. But with .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, times have changed.

neowin.net · Jan 14, 2026

devblogs.microsoft.com · Sep 11, 2025

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here with AI integration, blazing fast performance, Fluent UI design, and a new Insiders Channel for early features.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Mar 15, 2024

Visual Studio17.5 preview 3 now has a preview for the spell checker for C#, C++ and Markdown. Come check out how it works.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Feb 09, 2024

There are tons of great new feature for .NET developers to love in Visual Studio 2022, here are my top 10 that were released in 2023 that you can take advantage of right now.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jan 23, 2024

devblogs.microsoft.com · Dec 22, 2023

Ever struggled to name a variable, method, or class—finding that perfect balance between expressiveness and conciseness? You’re not alone. We’ve tackled this universal challenge in the latest Visual Studio Preview via our GitHub Copilot Chat extension (subscription required). Introducing: AI-powered rename suggestions.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Feb 22, 2023

devblogs.microsoft.com · Dec 22, 2022

devblogs.microsoft.com · Dec 08, 2022

ardalis.com · Sep 01, 2022

A popular extension and later core feature of VS Code, rainbow bracket colorization is now available as a free extension for Visual Studio.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Aug 04, 2022

talkingdotnet.com · Jul 21, 2022

Auto save file in Visual Studio 2022 enables you to save your files automatically in the background when Visual Studio loses focus.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jul 19, 2022

In Visual Studio 17.2 Preview 3, we added a few highly requested improvements in IEnumerable visualizer like Filtering, Theming, and CSV export.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jul 03, 2022

In Visual Studio 2022 17.3 Preview 2, Visual Studio now has audio cues to convey information while editing your code documents.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jul 03, 2022

community.devexpress.com · Jun 30, 2022

stevefenton.co.uk · May 31, 2022

devblogs.microsoft.com · May 17, 2022

devblogs.microsoft.com · May 17, 2022

Read all about the updates to Visual Studio 2022 in this latest release and download the 17.2 release today!

techcommunity.microsoft.com · May 09, 2022

devblogs.microsoft.com · Feb 04, 2022

devblogs.microsoft.com · Oct 11, 2021

One of the most popular and anticipated sets of extensions is now available to download for VS 2022 today: Productivity Power Tools!

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jun 20, 2021

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devblogs.microsoft.com · May 19, 2021

blog.jetbrains.com · Oct 21, 2020

ryadel.com · Aug 31, 2020

A series of workaround that might help fixing the 'Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server' error when debugging a Web Application on Visual Studio

visualstudiomagazine.com · Aug 12, 2020

Visual Studio senior program manager Mads Kristensen has created a new extension pack for the IDE to ease the acquisition of the basic tools that would benefit all developers.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Aug 12, 2020

Have you ever been tasked with diagnosing a slow performing web application and suspected the database was to blame? Looking into your database tier requires specific tools, now you can quickly and easily investigate using the database profiling tool in Visual Studio’s Performance Explorer!

blog.ndepend.com · Jul 15, 2020

10 Visual Studio search and navigation productivity tips illustrated with some GIFs. Learn those tips now and significantly boost your productivity.

medium.com · Jul 14, 2020

dailydotnettips.com · Jan 20, 2020

Solution Filter in Visual Studio allows a faster load of the solution with selective projects. Solution Filter in Visual Studio allows us to select only the required projects and help in faster load and build.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Oct 03, 2019

Have you ever accidentally shipped a log statement to production? Are you tired of cleaning up log statements while debugging? The solution is here!

devblogs.microsoft.com · Aug 26, 2019

The .NET team is constantly thinking of new ways to make developers more productive. We’ve been working hard over the past year to take the feedback you’ve sent us and turn it into tools that you want! In this post I’ll cover some of the latest productivity features available in Visual Studio 2019 Preview.

devblogs.microsoft.com · Jul 01, 2019

Whether you are new or have been using Visual Studio for years, there are a bunch of tips and tricks that can make you more productive. We’ve been sharing tips on Twitter using the #vstip hashtag for a while, and this is a collection of the best ones so far.

dailydotnettips.com · May 15, 2019

You can now view clipboard ring history in Visual Studio 2019. Clipboard ring is all about copy multiple code block, and past them as and when need

devblogs.microsoft.com · May 15, 2019

A few days ago, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019. But I’ve been using Visual Studio 2019 exclusively since the first internal build – long before the release of Preview 1 in December of 2018. During this time,