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.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance
.NET Object Allocation Tool Performance
Nik Karpinsky June 30, 2021 Jun 30, 2021 06/30/21
With the release of Visual Studio 16.10 comes a new analysis engine for the Performance Profiler, with the .NET Object Allocation Tool being the first tool to be onboarded. This provides the tool with some new features and a significant perf boost. Give it a shot with your C# app and see what spurious allocations you can remove to speed up ...
Let’s make Visual Studio even more accessible together.
Let’s make Visual Studio even more accessible together.
Dante Gagne June 29, 2021 Jun 29, 2021 06/29/21
Visual Studio wants to be the most accessible IDE available today. We've made huge strides, but we want to do even more. In this post, we'll talk about some of the new innovations we're exploring and we'd love your feedback. We want to make sure we're making the features that folks will love and we'd love to hear from you.
Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio
Gain +10 Debugging for Unity with Visual Studio
Avatar June 28, 2021 Jun 28, 2021 06/28/21
If you’re like me, you’ve probably searched through Debug.Log messages in the Unity console to find or fix a bug. Have you also asked if there was a better way? Follow along with our new video series and by the end we think you’ll be surprised at how a few simple debugging tools in Visual Studio can transform your workflow with Unity.
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available!
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 now available!
Justin Johnson June 17, 2021 Jun 17, 2021 06/17/21
We're excited to announce that the first preview release of Visual Studio 2022 is ready to install! This is the first release of a 64-bit Visual Studio and we’d love for you to download it, try it out, and join us in shaping the next major release of Visual Studio with your feedback.
Learn What’s New in .NET Productivity
Learn What’s New in .NET Productivity
Mika Dumont June 8, 2021 Jun 8, 2021 06/8/21
The .NET Productivity team (aka. Roslyn) continues to enhance your developer productivity with the latest tooling updates in Visual Studio 2019. In the last release, we listened to your feedback and have been hard at work improving the .NET developer experience. To try out the latest .NET productivity enhancements download the latest Visual ...
Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET
Build apps for Microsoft Teams with .NET
Avatar June 7, 2021 Jun 7, 2021 06/7/21
Create, debug, and deploy web apps directly in Teams with Visual Studio and Blazor using an early preview of the Teams Toolkit extension available for Visual Studio 2019 today. Learn more about the Teams Toolkit and follow along to get started in under 5 minutes.