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Keep learning, keep building! Make the most of VSLive! with your Visual Studio Subscription

Keeping up with new technology is one thing. Finding worthwhile opportunities to explore what matters most to your work is another. That’s where VSLive! can help. It brings technical learning, hands-on experience, expert guidance, and a community of developers together in one place, giving you focused time to explore evolving technologies and decide what’s worth […] The post Keep learning, keep bu…

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Preparing for your next certification could start with your Visual Studio Subscription 

Are you thinking about earning a Microsoft certification to help advance your career, build on your existing skills, or meet new requirements at work? If so, you may already be wondering where to start. Which courses, labs, and hands-on exercises will help you prepare? How much time will it take to find the right resources, […] The post Preparing for your next certification could start with your V…

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Are you getting everything you can from Your Visual Studio Subscription?

What if you could experiment with a new Azure service without requesting additional budget, prepare for your next technical certification using learning resources you already have, or build a dashboard without creating every UI component from scratch? If you’re a Visual Studio subscriber, you may already have benefits that can help you do all three. Here’s […] The post Are you getting everything y…

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Stop waiting on a failed build

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.

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New tools, new workflows and the value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What we learned at VSLive! San Diego

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…

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What would you build in Azure if you didn’t have to ask for a budget first?

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 di…

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Visual Studio September Update – Power Your Workflow with Your Model

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.

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Today I will… debug a production crash

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.

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AI Is Changing How We Code. It’s Also Changing How We Learn. 

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 C…

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Today I will… improve test coverage

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.

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Today I will… find hidden latency across a distributed .NET application

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 distr…

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Stop alt-tabbing into the wrong Visual Studio

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…

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Today I will… review GitHub PRs

Today I will show you how we can tackle one of the most common tasks when working in a development team or managing an open-source project, and that is working with Pull Requests. While we’re going to be using the GitHub tooling within Visual Studio for this, the approach would be very similar with Azure […] The post Today I will… review GitHub PRs appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

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VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ: Developer Takeaways and Must-Watch Sessions

VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 was one of the most energizing VSLive! events I’ve attended. What stood out was the level of engagement over five days of learning and conversation from July 27 through July 31. Developers came ready to dig into the future of Visual Studio, .NET, and AI-assisted software development, and many Microsoft engineers and product managers were there to have those conversation…

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The Visual Studio Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade

A few months ago, we introduced a new guided agentic workflow in the Visual Studio Debugger Agent designed to help you move from a bug report to a verified fix without spending your morning guessing where to begin. If you missed that announcement, check out Stop Hunting Bugs: Meet the New Visual Studio Debugger Agent […] The post The Visual Studio Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgra…

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Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual Studio with Bring your Own Model

The best AI in Visual Studio is the AI you can bring with you. Developers don’t work in a single-model world anymore. You might reach for one model for everyday coding, another for a domain-specific problem, and an approved model for work that must stay within your organization’s governance boundaries. So, the question we hear […] The post Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual St…

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Today I will… Modernize a .NET application

Today I will modernize a .NET Framework application to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization tooling built-in to Visual Studio. The tooling helps us upgrade applications running on legacy versions of .NET and also migrate them to Azure. Today we’re going to focus on the upgrade portion. And, the tooling will do […] The post Today I will… Modernize a .NET application appeared first on Visu…

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Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving the IDE

If you’ve worked with Git submodules for any length of time, you probably have a love-hate relationship with them. They’re genuinely useful for pulling a shared library, an SDK, or common build scripts into your project. But actually working with them usually means tabbing over to a terminal and trying to remember whether it’s git […] The post Today I will… manage Git Submodules without leaving th…

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Build Azure Skills Faster with Cloud Academy, a Visual Studio Subscriber Benefit

If you’ve been looking for a practical way to build Azure skills, Cloud Academy (a QA company) gives Visual Studio subscribers hands-on learning that fits into busy schedules. Whether you’re new to Azure, expanding your cloud expertise, working towards certifications or preparing for more advanced projects, this benefit helps you learn by doing. What you’ll find in Cloud Academy The Cloud Academy…

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Tell your model when to think harder 

Not every question deserves the same amount of thought. Renaming a variable isn’t the same as debugging a memory leak, and they don’t need the same level of thinking. So why should your model treat them the same way every time? Starting in Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders 2, it doesn’t have to. Supported models now come with a thinking […] The post Tell your model when to think harder appeared first on…

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Visual Studio Administrator? Join our Private Marketplace Preview!

Organizations are increasingly looking for greater control over extensions within development environments. Driven by security, compliance, and internal governance requirements, teams want more visibility into how developers discover and acquire extensions. To address these needs, we’re excited to begin previewing Private Marketplace support in Visual Studio. Private Marketplace for Visual Studio…

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Pick, manage, and get the most from your models

You open the model picker, scroll past a dozen options, and pause. How are these models different? Which one should you actually use? And once you’re a few hundred messages deep, how much capacity is even left before things start dropping off? We’ve all been there. These are the kinds of questions Visual Studio now […] The post Pick, manage, and get the most from your models appeared first on Visu…

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Built-in Agent Skills Bring .NET and Azure Expertise into Visual Studio

Visual Studio now includes built-in Agent Skills, created by experts from the .NET and Azure teams, to help you better customize your agentic workflow and complete development tasks more efficiently, starting with the 18.8 Release. Agent Skills are reusable capabilities that enable your agent to perform structured tasks more reliably (to learn more about what […] The post Built-in Agent Skills Bri…

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The Visual Studio Dev/Test Benefit: Freedom to Build, Test, and Experiment in Azure

One of the best parts of a Visual Studio Subscription is discovering benefits that can make your day-to-day development work easier and more cost effective. One benefit that deserves more attention is Azure Dev/Test pricing. In fact, it’s one of the most valuable benefits included with a Visual Studio Subscription. If you’re building cloud applications, testing new ideas, or maintaining multiple d…