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June 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance

June 30, 2021 Jun 30, 2021 06/30/21
Nik Karpinsky
With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up ...

Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio

June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21
John Miller
If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available!

June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
Justin Johnson
We're excited to announce that the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022 is ready to install! This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio with your feedback.

Learn What’s New in .NET Productivity

June 8, 2021 Jun 8, 2021 06/8/21
Mika Dumont
The .NET Productivity team (aka. Roslyn) continues to enhance your developer productivity with the latest tooling updates in Visual Studio 2019. In the last release, we listened to your feedback and have been hard at work improving the .NET developer experience. To try out the latest .NET productivity enhancements download the latest Visual ...