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Announcing Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools

Announcing Nightly Releases for the Visual F# Tools In our previous blog post announcing F# 4.1 and a release of the Visual F# Tools, we mentioned that a new release model for the Visual F# tools would be coming soon. That time is now. To recap, nightly builds of the tools are successful builds of the latest master branch of the tools, after ...

New Features in C# 7.0

Here is a description of all the new language features in C# 7.0, which came out last Tuesday as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release. C# 7.0 adds a number of new features and brings a focus on data consumption, code simplification and performance. Perhaps the biggest features are tuples, which make it easy to have multiple results, and ...

Announcing New ASP.NET Core and Web Development Features in Visual Studio 2017

We are pleased to announce updates to our ASP.NET tools, ASP.NET Core tools, Container tools, and frameworks that are shipping as part of the Visual Studio 2017 release today.  We have made significant updates to the web development tools to make them easier for you to use and help make you more productive in your daily web development tasks...

Announcing .NET Core Tools 1.0

Today, we are releasing .NET Core Tools 1.0. It's an exciting day and an important milestone in the .NET Core journey. The tools are supported on Windows, macOS and Linux. You can use them at the command-line, with VS Code or as part of Visual Studio 2017. You can download the new .NET Core tools at .NET Core Downloads, for using .NET Core on...