In a hybrid and cloud-based world, we want to make it easy for you to configure Visual Studio to your preferences whether you’re working on a laptop from home, on your desktop in the office, or using a Dev Box or Azure VM. Unified Settings reimagines how you personalize your IDE with a modern UI that reacts to changes immediately, has portable storage, and offers full control over what is shared between different project workspaces and Visual Studio installations. Unified Settings helps you set up your environment with both individual and team/workspace settings in Visual Studio. The settings ..read more

The All-In-One Search experience was first introduced in 17.2 Previews, and we’ve been refining its quality since. The new search merges code and feature search capabilities into one UI, so you can go to one place to find the things you need. Real-time results and a preview of the results speed up the process to get you to the right place. You can learn more from this previous blog post. Now we’re ready to share it more broadly in the 17.6 release of Visual Studio! We’d appreciate any feedback you can provide on this Developer Community ticket. The new search experience is gradually rolling o ..read more

Performance has always been one of our key investment areas for developer tooling in Microsoft. We understand that it’s important for developers to have a fast workflow. That’s why we’re excited to share with you the support of Dev Drives in Visual Studio! Dev Drive for Visual Studio has just been released to help you optimize your workflow and increase your productivity. With Dev Drive, you can create a separate volume on your PC that will improve performance for disk-bound operations such as cloning, building, copying files, and package restore. We measured average improvements in these oper ..read more

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 introduces exciting performance enhancements in several key areas. These improvements aim to enhance the overall software development experience by boosting productivity, reducing wait times, and providing a smoother workflow. The performance enhancements in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 include: Solution Open Solution Close  Git File History  Git Branch Switches Lightbulb Improvements Performance Profiler stop collection. You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio downloads page or upgrade your existing installation by following ins ..read more

Microsoft Dev Box is a managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure & ready-to-code workstations in the cloud. It gives companies the ability to pre-configure the development environment with all the tools needed to build, test, and deploy applications making developers more productive, regardless of their skill and experience level. In this blog post, we’ll explore how Visual Studio 2022 can be optimized to maximize developer productivity and streamline the overall development workflow when used in combination with Microsoft Dev Box. Download Visua ..read more

When coding in a long file, it’s easy to lose track of the method or block you’re writing in. Or when scrolling through an unfamiliar codebase, it can become disorienting where you are in the code. Sticky Scroll can help you stay in the right context by sticking helpful scopes, including namespaces, classes, methods, loop initialization statements, and conditionals. Multiple code formats are supported, including C#, C++, XAML, and JSON. With a single click on a line in the Sticky Scroll header, you can quickly navigate directly to that line of code. Learn more about it from the previous blogpo ..read more

If you don’t have access to YouTube, click here. Welcome to the Visual Studio Public Preview 1 of version 17.7! Following our recent General Availability (GA) release of v17.6, this exciting update offers a wide range of productivity enhancements tailored to the diverse needs of developers. Experience the cutting-edge improvements of Visual Studio and discover what lies ahead in this Preview release before it becomes widely available. Download Visual Studio 2022 Preview Discover the array of new capabilities and enhancements we’ve introduced in this release, including a multi-branch graph vis ..read more

Are you geared up for Build 2023? Microsoft’s flagship developer conference is just a week away, and we have an incredible lineup of Visual Studio sessions that you simply cannot afford to miss!   This year, Microsoft Build goes hybrid, offering you the best of both worlds – virtual and in-person experiences in Seattle, Washington, from May 23-25! Can’t make it to Seattle? No worries! You can access a plethora of live sessions online for free, right from the comfort of your office. Immerse yourself in keynotes and sessions on Visual Studio, AI development, and the latest advancement ..read more

You want to quickly select some text and surround it with quotation marks. So, you select your text and hit the quotation mark key on your keyboard, only to find that the selected text now has been replaced by a single “. What you hoped would happen was that the selected text would be surrounded by an opening and closing quotation mark like in the animation below. Let’s do something to fix this. In this experiment, we want to test if we can create a general feature for all languages that makes it easy to surround the selection. In fact, multiple developers have requested this feature, so reme ..read more

The Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems. We’re excited to share these early designs so we can incorporate your feedback into making Visual Studio the best IDE for developers. We’ve created a new Developer Community Ticket tracking the improvements we’ve made to the command shelf, menus, tool window chrome ..read more