Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2.0 and .NET Core Tooling Update

As you might already know, Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2.0 was released and there were a couple of nice features got introduced.

In this post, let’s have a quick peek on two of the most interesting things.

Double click and open .csproj file

This is really handy work. We usually interact a lot with .csproj files in the solution and so far what we used to do is, right click on the project and click on Edit .csproj.

Edit .csproj

And this not that user-friendly. What if we can simply double click on the project file to open it. That will be super easy, isn’t it? And with Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2.0, that’s possible. No more right clicking on the project and select Edit .csproj, just double click on the project and the project file gets opened.

New Integrated Console

Say you are trying or testing some piece of code, what we often do is creating a console application and write the code there (sometimes I use dotnetfiddle, but that’s for some basic code). And if you are just running the code and if you missed adding a Console.Read() at the end, the program will execute and the console will exit. But with the new integrated console, the program will execute and the console will stay open. And all the subsequent runs, the same window will be used, meaning you won’t have multiple consoles open for each session which can be annoying.

Microsoft Visual Studio Debug Console

And if you want to opt-out from having the console window opened, you can do so by going to Tools –> Options –> Debugging –> General and selecting Automatically close the console when debugging stops.

Automatically close the console when debugging stops

Hope this helps.

Happy Coding.

Regards,

Jaliya