{"id":36707,"date":"2017-02-13T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/?p=36707"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T22:52:25","slug":"congratulations-visual-studio-on-20-amazing-years-join-the-vs2017-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/congratulations-visual-studio-on-20-amazing-years-join-the-vs2017-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Visual Studio on 20 amazing years!  Join the VS2017 Launch Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were developing code back in \u201897, perhaps you remember the mind blowing concept of Microsoft delivering a single IDE that could do it all.\u00a0 Up to this point, developers were used to juggling debuggers, compilers, linkers, editors, and more to build integrated solutions.\u00a0 It was a special time to experience development technology coming together in a way that truly challenged the imagination.\u00a0 <em>Here\u2019s everything you need.<\/em>\u00a0 What can <strong>YOU<\/strong> build?\u00a0 Calling Visual Studio ambitious would be an understatement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>20 years later, we\u2019ve come a long way.\u00a0 Whatever the platform of choice, developers tend to agree \u2013 Visual Studio ROCKS!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launch.visualstudio.com\/\">Please join Microsoft for the Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary Celebration on March 7th and 8th.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/05\/special-delivery-3-17-2017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/05\/special-delivery-3-17-2017.jpg\" alt=\"Special Delivery clip\" width=\"644\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/05\/special-delivery-3-17-2017.jpg 644w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/05\/special-delivery-3-17-2017-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2017\/02\/09\/visual-studio-2017-launch-event-and-20th-anniversary\/\">Want to share a story, photo, or memorabilia from this special time?\u00a0 The Visual Studio Team would love to hear from you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Congratulations on 20 amazing years from our team to yours!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were developing code back in \u201897, perhaps you remember the mind blowing concept of Microsoft delivering a single IDE that could do it all.\u00a0 Up to this point, developers were used to juggling debuggers, compilers, linkers, editors, and more to build integrated solutions.\u00a0 It was a special time to experience development technology coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":582,"featured_media":37840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-net","category-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>If you were developing code back in \u201897, perhaps you remember the mind blowing concept of Microsoft delivering a single IDE that could do it all.\u00a0 Up to this point, developers were used to juggling debuggers, compilers, linkers, editors, and more to build integrated solutions.\u00a0 It was a special time to experience development technology coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}