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November 2019 - Visual Studio Blog

Azure IoT Tools November Update: standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development and more!

November 28, 2019 Nov 28, 2019 11/28/19
Jun Han
Welcome to the November update of Azure IoT Tools! In this November release, you will see the new standalone simulator for Azure IoT Edge development, the support of Vcpkg for IoT Plug and Play development and more new features. Deploy Event Grid module on Azure IoT Edge Event Grid on IoT Edge brings the power and flexibility of Azure ...

Visual Studio for Mac: Take Control of Your IDE with Keybindings

November 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 11/13/19
Cody Beyer
The great debates in computing all have one common theme. Whether it is tabs vs. spaces or Vi vs. Emacs, the thread linking all these debates together is keyboard efficiency. The truth is, we spend tons of hours working in an application, and keyboard shortcuts become automatic to us, the same muscle memory that great pianists or sports ...

Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts

November 6, 2019 Nov 6, 2019 11/6/19
Filisha Shah
The power of Visual Studio for desktop and mobile development is unmatched in the industry, and we wanted to ensure that the best in class also had the best collaboration story. Live Share is reimagining this collaboration story by reducing the barriers to collaboration, increasing the fidelity of the collaboration experience while building ...

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4 Preview 2, now available

November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
Today we released the latest preview, Preview 2, of Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.4. This preview comes with several exciting new features which we would love for you to try out. To get the preview: Updates in this preview The focus of this preview is around accessibility improvements and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Let’...