Visual Studio Blog

New experience for sending us your feedback

January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21

Mads Kristensen

We’ve been working to improve the Developer Community for providing feedback about Visual Studio. Last summer, we updated to a more flexible browser-based mechanism for sending feedback. Now we’re upgrading the rest of the Developer Community website. We’ve listened to your feedback and addressed almost half of all feature requests for ...

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 is Available Today

January 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021 01/20/21

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 releases today. Highlights of this release include additional functionality in C++, .NET Productivity, XAML Tools, and Accessibility. Check out the new features today!

A more integrated terminal experience

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21

Ruben Rios

As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste.   (image) Solution ...

[Guest Post] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21

benday

You’re writing tests for your code, right? No? Just say ‘yes’. It’ll make this blog post go a lot easier. So anyway, I’m happy to hear that you’re writing tests for all your code. Whether you’re following the “test first” / Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach or whether you’re just writing some unit tests or integration ...