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Visual Studio AI-Assistance: A Developer’s Best Friend

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23

Peter Groenewegen

The Visual Studio family leverages AI to help you stay focused on the creative tasks that get the core logic of your application built. For Visual Studio and VS Code, IntelliCode is free and assists with writing, editing and understanding code in popular languages. With IntelliCode, models run locally, meaning that none of your code ...

Visual Studio Spell Checker Preview Now Available

January 19, 2023 Jan 19, 2023 01/19/23

Dante Gagne

We know developers like you take pride in your code! Many of the features in Visual Studio are designed to help you write the code you want. Visual Studio helps you ensure your code compiles and can even help with code styling. Now it can even make sure your spelling is accurate. Visual Studio 17.5 preview 3 introduces the first preview of the...

Supercharge your Git experience in VS

April 13, 2022 Apr 13, 2022 04/13/22

Taysser Gherfal

Have you experienced delays when viewing your Git repository or branch history in Visual Studio? Have you run a network command like force-push and had to wait for the operation to complete? Your Git repository may be having performance issues due to its large size. We are happy to integrate a relatively new Git feature called the commit graph...

Line-staging (Interactive Staging)

February 17, 2022 Feb 17, 2022 02/17/22

Taysser Gherfal

Line-staging support, a.k.a. interactive staging is one of our most popular Git suggestion tickets. Visual Studio already supports staging files and now we are taking that to the next level by making it possible to stage chunks of changes in your files right from the editor. Line-staging can be helpful when you need to split changes across ...

Introducing new Git features to Visual Studio 2022

January 6, 2022 Jan 6, 2022 01/6/22

Taysser Gherfal

We continue to enhance the Git experience in Visual Studio, and we are excited to announce some long-awaited updates in version 17.1 Preview 2. Download the latest Visual Studio Preview and check out the following new Git features. Compare branches Comparing branches provides an overview of differences between two branches ...

Visual Studio 17.1 Preview 2 is now available!

January 5, 2022 Jan 5, 2022 01/5/22

Dominic Nahous

Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2 continues to iterate on the themes of the Visual Studio 2022 release. We're enhancing existing features, bringing new productivity improvements, and making it easier for you to make Visual Studio your own.

Visual Studio 2022 now available

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21

Amanda Silver

I am really excited to announce that we've reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022. Watch the keynote on YouTube.

Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event Agenda

November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21

Andy Sterland

We’re excited to host the Visual Studio 2022 launch event on November 8th. This release is unique: it brings together, the move to 64-bit, new capabilities, and improvements to reliability and performance across your entire developer workflow. The launch event is a celebration of that work, and all the work, our community, and extension

Join us November 8 for the Launch of Visual Studio 2022

October 12, 2021 Oct 12, 2021 10/12/21

Amanda Silver

On behalf of our entire team, I’m excited to announce the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2022 on November 8, and the immediate availability of the Visual Studio 2022 Release Candidate (RC) and Preview 5. We invite you to explore the latest capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 at our virtual launch event on November 8. Throughout the day, ...

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 is now available!

September 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021 09/14/21

Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the fourth preview release of Visual Studio 2022! With Preview 4, there are more new capabilities on the themes of personal and team productivity, modern development, and constant innovation. In this blog, we're highlighting a few of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4. We’d love for you to ...