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Reorder your document tabs and return to them by visual position with new keyboard shortcuts. The post Organize and revisit tabs with the keyboard appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Stop solution builds after the first project failure so you can return to fixing the error sooner. The post Stop waiting on a failed build appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

What happens when developers who have spent decades working with Visual Studio start rethinking how they write code, learn new skills, and expand their access to development tools?  At VSLive! San Diego, we had an opportunity to find out as developers gathered for five days of technical sessions, hands-on learning, and conversations about Visual Studio, The post New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Maybe you’d deploy that .NET application you’ve been working on. Try a serverless architecture. Experiment with containers. Build a proof of concept. Or spend some time exploring an Azure service you haven’t used yet.  If you’re an eligible Visual Studio subscriber, you may already have a personal Azure sandbox waiting for you.  Many Visual Studio The post What Would You Build in Azure If You Didn’t Have to Ask for a Budget First? appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Bring your own AI model with updates to BYOM, fix NuGet vulnerabilities from the Error List, explore pull requests with the Git agent, see which operand decides an if condition, and attach to Podman containers. The post Visual Studio September Update – Power Your Workflow with Your Model appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

We’ve all experienced this, the desktop application is hanging, the window is greyed out, and we’re just waiting for it to start to respond. Or we’re on a website and are sure that it was going to load faster than this, but we’re just waiting the loading icon spin around and around. These sorts of The post Today I will… debug a production crash appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

AI is changing software development at a pace no one can ignore.  Developers now have powerful AI tools that can help us write code, understand unfamiliar codebases, troubleshoot problems, learn new frameworks, and get answers in seconds. That is an incredible opportunity. But as these tools become more capable, I believe something else is becoming more valuable The post AI Is Changing How We Code. It’s Also Changing How We Learn.  appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Today I want to look at how we can improve on the test coverage that we have in the Interview Coach application. This application has some unit tests in it already, but I’m sure there is room for improvement. Defining our baseline Before we start writing tests, it’s a good idea to have a baseline The post Today I will… improve test coverage appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

When a distributed application feels slow, the user sees one delay. The code behind that delay may run across a web frontend, backend services, databases, and external APIs. If you profile only the frontend while the backend is slow, the profiler can show that the frontend is healthy without revealing the actual bottleneck. This article The post Today I will… find hidden latency across a distributed .NET application appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

A user asked for per-solution color themes. It already ships, and it goes further than they asked. You run several instances of Visual Studio side by side, one per solution, and they all look identical. Same taskbar icon, same alt-tab thumbnail, same chrome. So, you land in the wrong one, start typing, and realize thirty The post Stop alt-tabbing into the wrong Visual Studio appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.