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January 2023 - Visual Studio Blog

Documents and tool windows unleashed

January 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023 01/24/23
Mads Kristensen
We’re continuing our video series with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of Visual Studio. This week is all about managing tool windows and documents. There are lots of options to customize how we layout the various windows, documents, and tabs that you use every day. Knowing about these features will help you optimize your usage ...

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...

Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 is here!

January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23
Anthony Cangialosi
Visual Studio 2022 17.5 Preview 3 is out and ready to install! This release continues to bring new productivity improvements for all developers and enhances many of the capabilities that shipped in 17.5 Preview 2. Several of these changes in this preview came from asks in the community and are highlighted below. These and many other threads...

New: Better search in Visual Studio

January 17, 2023 Jan 17, 2023 01/17/23
Leah Tran
Whether you are looking for specific code files, classes, methods, or features and options in the IDE, finding them is not always easy. With multiple ways to search, how would you even know which one to choose? The new All-In-One Search combines code and feature search into the same UI and adds some extra power and productivity to the ...

Debugging Encoded Text

January 11, 2023 Jan 11, 2023 01/11/23
Mark Downie
Validating encoded strings is a basic but important part of our debugging workflow these days. I cannot count the number of times I have found myself looking at a URL-encoded string only to be suddenly unsure how percentage signs are supposed to be represented? I have been a web developer for years, but I can never remember what the URL-...

Five shortcuts to boost your productivity

January 9, 2023 Jan 9, 2023 01/9/23
Mads Kristensen
Taking full advantage of the Visual Studio editor features will make you a more productive developer. Any keyboard warrior will tell you that knowing the right shortcuts boosts that productivity even further. So, we’ve put together a short little video that demonstrates some useful shortcuts you can use while coding in Visual Studio. ...