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Exploring JavaScript and TypeScript Development in Visual Studio

April 27, 2023 Apr 27, 2023 04/27/23

Jiayan Chen

Over the last 12 months, we made many improvements to the JavaScript and TypeScript developer experience in Visual Studio so that you can run both your front-end and back-end together within one click in one place. You might have seen the updates but in this blog post we will detail the new and improved features now available when working with...

Improving the Syntax Highlighting of JavaScript in Visual Studio

April 21, 2023 Apr 21, 2023 04/21/23

Armando Aguirre

Syntax highlighting, aka colorization, is one of Visual Studio's essential features; it uses colors and styles to help guide our brains when reading code. Following this Developer Community suggestion, we decided to work on improving the JavaScript and TypeScript experience! Starting from 17.6 we improved existing colorization and expanded ...

Building a new JavaScript linting experience in Visual Studio

December 1, 2022 Dec 1, 2022 12/1/22

Maria Solano

Available today in the 17.4 public release, Visual Studio has revamped its ESLint support! The new linting experience includes: But the main purpose of this post is not to list all of the cool things that the new linting service provides, but to tell you a little bit about the story behind it. I joined Microsoft at the...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 Brings New Features Your Way

March 26, 2020 Mar 26, 2020 03/26/20

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 releases today with several new features to help developer productivity. Check out our improved Git integration, .NET Productivity features, plus so much more!

Debug JavaScript in Microsoft Edge from Visual Studio

October 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 10/16/19

Zoher Ghadyali

You can now debug JavaScript running in the next version of Microsoft Edge, built with Chromium, directly from Visual Studio! In this post, we walk through creating a new ASP.NET Core Web Application using React.js and show you how to set breakpoints and debug your client-side JavaScript code running in Edge with Visual Studio.

Intelligent Productivity and Collaboration, from Anywhere

May 6, 2019 May 6, 2019 05/6/19

Jonathan Carter

Today we’re excited to announce the private preview of a set of developer services that enable you to work from anywhere, and on any device, complete with the most intelligent productivity and collaboration tools in the industry.

Live Share now included with Visual Studio 2019

April 2, 2019 Apr 2, 2019 04/2/19

Jon Chu

Today we’re excited to announce Visual Studio Live Share for generally availability and included with Visual Studio 2019! This is the culmination of over a year of hearing your feedback and building a product that enhances the many diverse ways you and your team collaborate. Regardless of whether your team is fully remote, partially distributed, or entirely co-located, we want to make your collaboration experiences more enjoyable and productive with Live Share.

Visual Studio Live Share for real-time code reviews and interactive education

December 6, 2018 Dec 6, 2018 12/6/18

Jon Chu

Collaborating with your team using Visual Studio Live Share keeps getting easier! Since making Live Share available for the public use at BUILD last May, we’ve heard so much great feedback from our users, which has helped guide us in continuing to build a tool that truly enables developers to collaborate in all the ways they need from the ...

Visual Studio IntelliCode supports more languages and learns from your code

December 5, 2018 Dec 5, 2018 12/5/18

Mark Wilson-Thomas

At Build 2018, we announced Visual Studio IntelliCode, a set of AI-assisted capabilities that improve developer productivity. IntelliCode includes features like contextual IntelliSense code completion recommendations, code formatting, and style rule inference. IntelliCode has just received some major updates that make its context-sensitive ...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

August 20, 2018 Aug 20, 2018 08/20/18

Dominic Nahous

For this release of Visual Studio for Mac, we’ve focused our energy on improving product reliability, creating a better code editing experience, and making the performance second to none. We’re also exited to announce full support for Azure functions – it’s now possible to create, edit, configure, and publish your Function from within the IDE.

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