When the user saves an instance, or *model*, of a domain-specific language (DSL) in Visual Studio, an XML file is created or updated. The file can be reloaded to recreate the model in the Store. You ...

Learn about the XML file created or updated when you save an instance, or model, of a domain-specific language (DSL) in Visual Studio. When the user saves an instance, or model, of a domain-specific ...

The new Rainbow Braces extension helps code “make sense”, according to its developer. Microsoft’s C# principal product manager Mads Kristensen developed an extension for Visual Studio called ‘Rainbow ...

Test projects give you a way to exercise your code to see if it works but they're also part of your project's "permanent record." If all you want to do is try something out with some throwaway code, C ...

I first learned about the C# compiler as a service workings way back in 2008 at PDC. At that time, Anders Hejlsberg gave a brief preview of what was to come by showing off a C# ...

Previously available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, the tool for C# and more is now also represented in the open ...

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Microsoft recently released the third preview build of Visual Studio 17.5 and one of the notable additions was a spell checker, which has been enabled for C#, C++, and Markdown files. Out of the box, ...