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Nayana Srikanth
Nayana Srikanth
Sep 18, 2024

Multi-Project Launch Configuration

Are you tired of the hassle of manually configuring your development environment every time you want to launch multiple projects? We've heard your feedback and ...

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Mark Downie
Mark Downie
Sep 17, 2024

How to run .NET apps natively on Arm64 devices

Are you developing .NET applications for Arm-based processors? Do you want to take advantage of the performance and power efficiency of running your apps ...

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Peter Spada
Peter Spada
Sep 16, 2024

Understanding the behavior of the XAML Designer with abstract base classes

Visual Studio 2022 introduced a new XAML designer for building WPF apps, with a goal of increasing the performance and reliability of the designer. The new ...

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Dominic Nahous
Dominic Nahous
Sep 12, 2024

VisualStudio.Extensibility 17.11: Settings and more Remote UI support

We continue to invest in the VisualStudio.Extensibility SDK to allow users like you to create extensions that run faster and smoother than ever before! ...

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Leah Tran
Leah Tran
Sep 11, 2024

Search scoping helps you find what youā€™re looking for

If you're working on a large and complex solution, you might find yourself overwhelmed by the number of results when you use code search in Visual Studio. You ...

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Anders Sundheim
Anders Sundheim
Sep 10, 2024

Break for Async User-Unhandled exceptions in the Visual Studio Debugger

Before .NET 9, the debugger was unable to track exceptions thrown from user-code async methods into non-user code framework methods, such as ASP.NET middleware...

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Harshada Hole
Harshada Hole
Sep 9, 2024

Supercharge C++ Debugging with AI-Generated breakpoint expressions

Have you ever spent hours debugging your C++ code, struggling to set up the right conditional breakpoint or tracepoint? Or wished for a smarter way to obtain ...

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Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen
Sep 5, 2024

Easily dock and float tool windows

Youā€™re in the middle of a debugging session, attempting to chase down that one issue that is causing you trouble. In the heat of the moment, you grab a tool ...

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Rhea Patel Sinem Akinci Mika Dumont
Rhea,
Sinem,
Mika
Sep 4, 2024

Incorporate GitHub Copilot into your daily flow

Streamlining Workflow with GitHub CopilotĀ  Have you ever received code completions that are too large to manage or ones that need slight tweaks, but you must ...

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