The latest version of Visual Studio, i.e. Visual Studio 2019 is committed towards faster execution, more productive for developers to perform their tasks; be it be refactoring, debugging and/or faster build process. It gives more focus on real time collaborations between team members using the capabilities like Live Share.
What are the new features/enhancements planned for Visual Studio 2019?
- Quickly open code you recently worked on or start from one of the most commonly used flows like clone, open, or new project.
- Create new projects with an improved search experience and filters using the new list of most popular templates.
- Refreshed blue theme.
- Updated menu and title bar to increase space for code.
- Improved search accuracy for menus, commands, options, and installable components.
- Configure specific projects that load when a solution is opened.
- Checkout and review a pull request inside the IDE.
- Visual health status icon in the document scrollbar to indicate the presence of and provide quick navigation to issues, warnings, and errors in current document.
- One-click code cleanup command for documents, projects and solutions.
- New extensibility templates for creating Async Tool Windows.
- VSIX Manifest attribute to mark an extension as "Preview".
- VSIX Project Templates use to declare NuGet dependencies.
- Reduced Xamarin installation payload size.
- New in-product acquisition flow for Android emulator.
- Xamarin.Forms XAML property editor.
- Xamarin.Android Designer improvements with support for sample data.
- Support for find all references in Razor (.cshtml) files.
- Use Visual Studio with improved clarity across monitors with varying DPIs.
- Move some services to the background so solutions load faster.
- Visual Studio tooling (e.g. XAML and WinForms Designers, app publishing tools) for WinForms and WPF development with .NET Core 3.
- Xamarin.Forms 4.0 templates and tooling support.
- Xamarin.Android Designer improvements with initial support for constraint layouts.
- Xamarin.Forms Previewer improvements.
- Enhanced Fast Deployment for Xamarin.Android.
- Android API 29 Support.
- Updated Test Explorer that provides better performance for large numbers of tests, and enhanced grouping and sorting capabilities.
- Full featured debugging, interactive window, and IntelliSense experience when using Open Folder with Python.
- Debugging Python Flask and Django apps with auto-reload enabled.
- Ability to add SQL Azure databases, Storage Accounts, Application Insights, and Key Vaults to existing Azure App Service instances from the publish summary page.
- Support for running .NET Unit Tests against projects that target multiple .NET frameworks (e.g. .NET Framework and .NET Core).
- Basic x:bind support for XAML edit and continue.
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