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January 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

New experience for sending us your feedback

January 25, 2021 Jan 25, 2021 01/25/21
Mads Kristensen
We’ve been working to improve the Developer Community for providing feedback about Visual Studio. Last summer, we updated to a more flexible browser-based mechanism for sending feedback. Now we’re upgrading the rest of the Developer Community website. We’ve listened to your feedback and addressed almost half of all feature requests for ...

A more integrated terminal experience

January 14, 2021 Jan 14, 2021 01/14/21
Ruben Rios
As part of the new additions of the Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 release, and thanks to your feedback, we have added a couple new tricks to the integrated terminal! It now allows you to open a new terminal to a location based on your Solution Explorer selection and provides customizable commands for copy and paste.   (image) Solution ...

[Guest Post] Visual Studio for Mac Helps You Write Tests

January 13, 2021 Jan 13, 2021 01/13/21
benday
You’re writing tests for your code, right? No? Just say ‘yes’. It’ll make this blog post go a lot easier. So anyway, I’m happy to hear that you’re writing tests for all your code. Whether you’re following the “test first” / Test-Driven Development (TDD) approach or whether you’re just writing some unit tests or integration ...