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April 2023 - Visual Studio Blog

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 Visual Studio performance with the new Instrumentation Tool

April 13, 2023 Apr 13, 2023 04/13/23
Nik Karpinsky
Summary With the release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 we are shipping our new and improved Instrumentation Tool in the Performance Profiler. Unlike the CPU Usage tool, the Instrumentation tool gives exact timing and call counts which can be super useful in spotting blocked time and average function time. To show off the tool let’s use...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Debug Threads & Tasks with Parallel Stacks

April 6, 2023 Apr 6, 2023 04/6/23
Leslie Richardson
The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling in and out of Visual Studio.  Our latest episodes of VS Toolbox (available both on Learn and YouTube) feature Mark Downie and Ramkumar Ramesh from the Visual Studio Diagnostics team. They demonstrate how you can use the Threads and Tasks views ...