Episode

Our Favorite NEW Visual Studio Features of 2024

with James Montemagno

What were our favorite features released this year in Visual Studio? We asked team members that build Visual Studio every day to highlight their favorite new features that they think you are going to love. Some are big features, some are small features, and of course we have some great new AI features, so dive in!

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 00:19 - Mads Kristensen: The Small Things
  • 00:30 - Image Hover Preview
  • 00:55 - Error copying improvements
  • 01:30 - Search the web for help
  • 01:45 - Drag and drop between Visual Studio instances
  • 02:05 - New keyboard commands for comments and search
  • 02:30 - Font and text improvements
  • 02:48 - Dalia Ado Sheasha: Rename Suggestions
  • 04:23 - Jessie Houghton: Copilot Commit Message Generation and Customization and Review
  • 05:25 - Sy Brand: Memory Layout Viewer
  • 06:23 - Andy Sterland: async debugger improvements
  • 08:08 - Rachel Kang: New .NET MAUI Templates
  • 09:50 - Bruno Capuano: GitHub Copilot Model Selection & Multi-file Edits
  • 11:11 - Maia Kelner: New extension manager & extension hot loading
  • 12:55 - David Li: Unreal Engine Projects in Visual Studio
  • 14:13 - Sandy Armstrong: Code Search Improvements
  • 15:09 - James Montemagno: .NET Aspire Integration
  • 17:38 - Wrap-up

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