Developers also can skip over tool-generated code. Also in Visual Studio 2008, suppression support, for suppressing and instance of a warning, has been extended, giving developers more control.

Static code analysis tools like Checkstyle and SonarQube. If you've ever wanted to experiment with a new IDE, it's worth dedicating a bit of time to download and install Visual Studio Code for Java.

Visual Studio: Chat now supports using the Output Window as context. Developers can click to include build or debug logs in prompts, use #output, or right-click log lines and select "Explain with ...