As we kick off the AWS re:Invent 2024 conference, we’re thrilled to introduce two major developer observability and live debugging advancements that bring even greater power and flexibility to developers and engineering teams everywhere. These new product capabilities — the Lightrun Visual Studio Extension and Lightrun Dynamic Traces — are designed to elevate customers’ observability […] The post Lightrun Unveils Game-Changing Visual Studio Extension and Dynamic Traces at AWS ReInve...| Lightrun
In my brief stint with Hive (which resulted in this and this blog), I used IntelliJ IDEA. I was reintroduced to the marvels of IDEs and how easy they make a developer's life. I had used Visual Studio, TurboC and many other language specific IDEs back in my college days. But once I started working exclusively with C and Linux, I was confined to vim, gdb, cgdb and at the most ddd. (Didn't use emacs. But I hear that's cool IDE as well.) I had kinda forgot what comfort it is to work in an IDE. Th...| Walking with the Elephants
For a long time I thought Visual Studio was probably better at coding in C++ than Xcode, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. I’ve now worked with Xcode just shy of a year and can root my opinion in some concrete differences.| Lasse Laursen
Microsoft has five different version numbers to think about when it comes to C++. Here’s an attempt to explain what they all mean. Visual Studio release year (the “marketing version num…| C++ on a Friday
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 17.13, with long-awaited fixes including the ability to set the default text […]| DEVCLASS
We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.12. This update focuses on providing fantastic developer experiences for working with .NET 9 projects and new AI productivity features, along with continuous improvements for all developers. Thanks to your continuous feature requests, we’ve incorporated many of them in this release. […]| Visual Studio Blog
This post demonstrates some of my favorite search techniques that work well in VSCode, including some basic RegEx (Regular Expressions) expressions that will help you find exactly what you’re looking for in an unfamiliar code base. We will cover VSCode file type inclusions and exclusions, single-line multi-term searching, conditional searching, and more. RegEx can be intimidating to people who aren’t used to using it, but luckily the RegEx expressions described in this post are very easy ...| Keyhole Software
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes with my friend, Richard Campbell (of DotNetRocks) talking about the Internet of Things at the Channel 9 Studios. You can watch the video here (it is less than 10-minutes). This show is part of a countdown show to DevIntersection2016 in Orlando, FL. … Continue reading Talking About the Internet of Things→| Doug Seven
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 extension combines the features of Copilot and Copilot Chat into one convenient package, eliminating the need to install two separate extensions.| Visual Studio Blog
We 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 […]| Visual Studio Blog
It took “a while” but, without any fanfare, sometime in May of 2022, Microsoft released a version of the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) that supports Visual Studio (VS) 2022. This version is referred to as the Windows 11 Version 22H2 WDK. This new version of the WDK is only support on VS 2022. It cannot […]| OSR
In the rapidly evolving world of software development, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. The introduction of AI in Visual Studio, particularly GitHub Copilot, has revolutionized the way developers code. With Copilot integrated into Visual Studio, you can leverage AI to streamline your workflows, manage large codebases, analyze exceptions, and even generate commit messages. […]| Visual Studio Blog
Umpteenth time that you will see a lateral movement based on DCOM. This time it's Visual Studio.| Developers are juicy targets: DCOM & Visual Studio |
Explore AI-powered rename suggestions in Visual Studio with GitHub Copilot Chat. This innovative feature offers smart, context-aware naming options for variables, methods, and classes, enhancing code readability and maintainability. Perfect for developers seeking efficient coding solutions.| Visual Studio Blog