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What's new in Visual Studio docs

Welcome to what's new in Visual Studio docs. The following sections provide details on the previous three months of new and updated content.

August 2026

Extensibility

Updated articles

  • VSIX Color Editor - Clarify theme-color editing entry points, override precedence, and extension testing with customized tokens.
  • Visual Studio Theme Color Tokens - Clarify live token customization, per-theme overrides, customizable surfaces, and shared override-file naming.

IDE

Updated articles

MSBuild

Updated articles

  • Change waves - Document MSBuild 18.9/18.10 change waves and how to restart persistent build processes after changing feature-wave settings.
  • Common MSBuild Project Properties - Add the DeterministicTimestamp property and clarify deterministic-build behavior.
  • MSBuild Server - Explain .NET 11 default enablement, node reuse, disabling, fallback conditions, and diagnostics for MSBuild Server.

Test

New articles

Community contributors

Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.

July 2026

Debugger

New articles

  • Debug with Copilot Prompts - Add prompt techniques for reproducing, diagnosing, instrumenting, and verifying bugs with Debugger Agent

IDE

Updated articles

MSBuild

Updated articles

Testing

Updated articles

Community contributors

The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.

June 2026

Debugger

Updated articles

IDE

Updated articles

Install

Updated articles

JavaScript

Updated articles

MSBuild

Updated articles

Testing

Updated articles

Community contributors

The following people contributed to the Visual Studio docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.