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Introducing Visual Studio Codespaces: cloud-hosted development for wherever you’re working

April 30, 2020 Apr 30, 2020 04/30/20

Nik Molnar

With a new name of Visual Studio Codespaces, lowered pricing, a Basic instance type, and many other new features, there's never been a better time to try remote development. Go give it a try!

Exception Helper – Rethrown Exceptions

April 28, 2020 Apr 28, 2020 04/28/20

Andy Sterland

Ever had a bug in an async method that caused an exception? Been frustrated that the debugger doesn't show you where that exception happened? Or been frustrated when looking at an exception that has an inner exception, but the debugger doesn't easily show you where that exception was from? Starting from the Visual Studio 2019 16.5 release, the...

Creating and Packaging a .NET Standard library

April 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 04/22/20

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi

In this post we will cover how you can create a .NET Standard library and then share that with other developers via NuGet. We will be demonstrating this with Visual Studio for Mac, but you can also follow along with Visual Studio, or Visual Studio Code when using the dotnet CLI. If you are on macOS, and haven’t already download Visual Studio...

See What’s New in Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 3!

April 16, 2020 Apr 16, 2020 04/16/20

Jacqueline Widdis

Visual Studio 2019 v16.6 Preview 3 releases today with new features in Git user experiences, Terminal, Mobile Developer, and Microsoft Fakes for .NET Core.

Bring your own machine to Visual Studio Online

April 9, 2020 Apr 9, 2020 04/9/20

Allison Buchholtz-Au

Today Visual Studio Online provides fully-managed, on-demand, ready-to-code development environments in the cloud, but did you know you can also register your own machines and access them remotely from Visual Studio Code or our web editor? This is a great option for developers that want to cloud-connect an already configured work or home ...

Meet Visual Studio for Mac’s New Integrated Terminal!

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Jon Galloway

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac Preview now includes an integrated terminal, with support for themes, search, multiple instances, and integration with the macOS terminal history. Read about the new features and find out how to try it out today!

Thank you, Visual Studio docs contributors (March 2020)

April 8, 2020 Apr 8, 2020 04/8/20

Jill Reinauer

Thank you to everyone who contributed pull requests and GitHub issues to the Visual Studio docs in March of 2020! Learn how you can get involved.

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