What's new in Visual Studio docs
Welcome to what's new in Visual Studio docs. The following sections provide details on the previous three months of new and updated content.
July 2024
Azure
Updated articles
- Sign in with an Azure subscription - Add sign-in details and link
Containers
Updated articles
- Visual Studio Container Tools for Docker - Update Add Docker Support info
Debugger
Updated articles
- Tabular visualizers in Visual Studio - Update tabular visualizer article for expression editing support
- Debug .NET Core on Linux using SSH by attaching to a process - Attach to Process updates for Linux
Deployment
Updated articles
- Deploy your app to a folder, IIS, Azure, or another destination - Add Azure Container Apps and other updates
Designers
Updated articles
- Tutorial: Get started with Windows Forms Designer - Review and update
Extensibility
New articles
Updated articles
- Signing VSIX Packages - VSIX Signing update
IDE
Updated articles
- Rename a code symbol refactoring - Update IDE steps for rename when refactoring
Install
Updated articles
- Create an offline installation package of Visual Studio for local installation - Review and update
JavaScript
Updated articles
- Debug a JavaScript or TypeScript app in Visual Studio - Attach to process updates for JavaScript and TypeScript debugging
MSBuild
New articles
Updated articles
- ResolveAssemblyReference task - Add troubleshooting article for resolving assembly references in MSBuild
Profiling
New articles
Updated articles
- Measure application performance by analyzing CPU utilization (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Add Just My Code settings to CPU Usage article, links
- First look at profiling tools (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Add user marks to profiling timeline
- Beginner's guide to optimizing code and reducing compute costs (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Edit beginner's guide to profiling to conform to a case study pattern
Version control
Updated articles
- About Git in Visual Studio - Improve search metadata and text
Community contributors
The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- ErikEJ - Erik Ejlskov Jensen
June 2024
Azure
Updated articles
- Publish a Cloud Services (classic) project to Cloud Services (extended support) by using Visual Studio - Review and update
Deployment
Updated articles
- Specify ClickOnce Publish properties - Update and refactor articles on ClickOnce deployment settings
- Server and client configuration issues in ClickOnce deployments - Remove Internet Explorer references from ClickOnce
- Overview of Publish - Review and update, add more about basic Publish operations
- Get publish settings from Azure and import into Visual Studio - Review and update credentials information for Azure App Service publish
Get started
Updated articles
- Tutorial: Create your first Universal Windows Platform application in Visual Studio with XAML and C# - Review and update
- Tutorial: Create a math quiz WinForms app - Review and update
- What is Visual Studio? - Review and update
IDE
Updated articles
- Sign in or switch Visual Studio user accounts - Add steps to sign in from the IDE
- Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio - Add instructions on how to hide/remove GitHub Copilot
- Manage application settings (.NET) - Review and update
- Manage project and solution properties - Review and update
- Outlining - Review and update
- Manage word wrap in the editor - Review and update
- What is Sticky Scroll for Visual Studio? - Review and update
Install
Updated articles
- Visual Studio on Arm-powered devices - Workload updates for Arm64 in latest Visual Studio releases
- Install Visual Studio versions side-by-side - Review and update
- Repair Visual Studio - Review and update
- Uninstall or remove Visual Studio - Review and update
- Install Visual Studio - Review and update
MSBuild
Updated articles
- Select the files to build - Updates to apply to SDK builds
- MSBuild command-line reference - Improve readability of MSBuild tables
Profiling
New articles
Updated articles
- Beginner's guide to optimizing code and reducing compute costs (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Add tutorial for starting a performance investigation using .NET Counters and Instrumentation
- Instrument a native stand-alone component and collect timing data with the profiler from the command line - Update command-line instrumentation articles for VSIntsr usage
Test
Updated articles
- Unit test basics - Add Copilot info and links related to generating unit tests
Community contributors
The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- PhilKang0704 - Phil
- Guiorgy - Guiorgy
- hickford - M Hickford
- trivalik - Trivalik
May 2024
Containers
Updated articles
- Quickstart: Use Docker with a React Single-page App in Visual Studio - Update and link to React article
Data tools
Updated articles
- Connect to an Access database in .NET Framework applications - Add link to Access and show the generated code
Debugger
Updated articles
- Walkthrough: Writing a Visualizer in C# - Point users reading old Visualizer docs to new VisualStudio.Extensibility ones
- DirectX Support in Visual Studio - Update with DirectX 11 compatibility information
- Debug multithreaded applications in Visual Studio - Refactor several multithreaded debugging articles
- Tips for debugging threads - Refactor several multithreaded debugging articles
- View register values in the Registers window (C#, C++, Visual Basic, F#) - Refactor articles on the Registry window
Extensibility
New articles
Updated articles
- Tutorial: Advanced remote UI - Merge VisualStudio.Extensibility updates for 17.10
- Why Remote UI - Merge VisualStudio.Extensibility updates for 17.10
- Project query API concepts - Merge VisualStudio.Extensibility updates for 17.10
- Query the project API - Merge VisualStudio.Extensibility updates for 17.10
Get started
Updated articles
- Tutorial: Create your first Windows App SDK application in Visual Studio with XAML and C# - Updates for new workload for WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK apps (called ‘Windows application development’) in 17.10
IDE
Updated articles
- Change the build output directory - Improve guidance for setting the build output directory and add tabs
- Navigate code - Review and update
- Add your GitHub accounts to your Visual Studio keychain - Update
- Sign in to Visual Studio with accounts that require multifactor authentication (MFA) - Add Web Account Manager errors and troubleshooting
JavaScript
Updated articles
- Tutorial: Create an ASP.NET Core app with Angular in Visual Studio - Add Docker port configuration info for default setup for Vue and Angular with ASP.NET Core
- Tutorial: Create an ASP.NET Core app with Vue in Visual Studio - Add Docker port configuration info for default setup for Vue and Angular with ASP.NET Core
MSBuild
Updated articles
- Customize the build by folder - Improve guidance for setting the build output directory and add tabs
- Customize C++ builds - Improve guidance for setting the build output directory and add tabs
- Exclude files from the build - Exclude from build
- Configure targets and tasks - Add task factory details
- Extend the Visual Studio build process - Reorder sections, and add best practices
- Target build order - Reorder sections, and add best practices
- Property functions - Change links and add note about compatibility
Profiling
New articles
Updated articles
- Instrumentation in Visual Studio (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Update links in profiling tools
- Beginner's guide to optimizing code and reducing compute costs (C#, Visual Basic, C++, F#) - Update links in profiling tools
Community contributors
The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- PhilKang0704 - Phil
- congruidavidli -
- Jonny-vb -
- mikefossdev -
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