Pure Virtual C++ is our free one-day virtual conference for the whole C++ community. This year it will run on April 30th 15:00 UTC. Sign-up for free to get access to our five sessions on the day and a host of pre-conference content which will roll out in the two weeks leading up to the conference. The sessions are: Automated Testing of Shader Code with Keith Stockdale (Rare) Rare has a rich culture of writing automated tests for their game and engine code. The ‘Sea of Thieves’ project has hundreds of thousands of automated tests that exist to validate behavior and to ensur ..read more

A step-by-step guide to use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio GitHub Copilot serves as an AI-powered coding assistant capable of operating across various development environments, assisting you with your everyday coding challenges. In this new series of content, we will demonstrate how GitHub Copilot functions in Visual Studio especially and how it boosts your efficiency. We just published “Using GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio”, the third short video in this series, to guide you through leveraging GitHub Copilot Chat effectively within Visual Studio. Exploring code with GitHub Copilot ..read more

GitHub Copilot your AI-powered coding companion is now seamlessly woven into your Visual Studio IDE, enhancing your everyday tasks and bringing you the latest AI-driven coding experiences. Copilot is designed to elevate your efficiency, by offering personalized code suggestions, crafting your git commit messages, answering coding-related queries, and much more. We’re thrilled to introduce the new, unified Copilot experience in Visual Studio 17.10, now available in Preview 3 (General availability in May). This combines the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one convenient package. Elimin ..read more

A step-by-step guide to use comments as prompts in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Introduction to GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio GitHub Copilot is a programming assistant that uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to help you increase efficiency in your daily programming tasks. It is compatible with various IDEs (Integrated Development Environments), text editors, and more. In this series, we will focus on demonstrating how GitHub Copilot can help you become more productive in Visual Studio. One way to get code suggestions from GitHub Copilot is by leveraging code comments. However, we know s ..read more

Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago 2024  April 29 – May 3 | Swissôtel, Chicago  Join us for Visual Studio LIVE! Chicago for a focused, deep dive into the latest .NET Microsoft Platform developments. You pick the package you want, 3, 4 or all 5 days! This year, we’re at the Swissôtel Chicago, with sessions covering Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, .NET 8, Azure, DevOps, Generative AI (GitHub Copilot and more), MAUI, JavaScript, TypeScript, Blazor, modern data processing, and more.  Why Attend?  Relevant Keynotes by Microsoft Visionaries: Zero to Cloud Hero with Visual Studio (04/30 ..read more

MSBuild is a fundamental part of the .NET development experience, but it can be challenging to new and experienced developers alike. To help developers better understand their project files and access advanced functionality that requires editing the project file directly, we’re releasing an experimental MSBuild editor that has a much richer understanding of MSBuild files than the current XML schema allows. Based on feedback, we hope to make it available by default to all .NET developers. If you work with MSBuild files at all, please try it and let us know how it goes. Who is this for? Alt ..read more

We’ve just shipped preview support for viewing your GitHub and Azure DevOps pull request comments directly in your working file in Visual Studio in 17.10 Preview 2. As one of the most highly requested Git tooling feature suggestions on Developer Community, we need your help to make sure we’re on the right track! Download the Latest Visual Studio Preview and let us know what you think!  Get Started with Pull Request Comments Make sure you’re on version 17.10 Preview 2 or later and have logged in with your GitHub or Azure DevOps account in Visual Studio. You may need to enable the feature ..read more

We are thrilled to announce the launch of SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for Visual Studio in ARM64. This enhancement comes with the exciting release version 17.10 Preview 2. Release of SSDT for Visual Studio on arm64 adds SQL development to the capabilities of Visual Studio on arm64. This latest development brings a host of features tailored to enhance your database development experience on ARM64 devices.  Download Visual Studio Preview Key Features:  SQL Projects (Open, Build, Publish): Dive into your SQL projects seamlessly with the ability to open an existing project, and build ..read more

Join us on Wednesday, March 20th, 2024, at this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco for a special session on using Visual Studio and GitHub Copilot. In this session, you will learn how to leverage these tools to increase your productivity and modernize your game development workflow.   David Li, Visual Studio Game Developer Product Manager, and Greg Denton, Principal Product Manager at Xbox, will showcase the latest features made for game dev, including Unreal Engine integrations to see Blueprint references, tools to help you optimize build times, and useful design ti ..read more

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