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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
ScriptingGuy1
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17
ScriptingGuy1
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!]   Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. I’ll share some details in ...

TFVC support and other enhancements hit Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio

November 27, 2017 Nov 27, 2017 11/27/17
ScriptingGuy1
A year ago, we released the first preview of the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio (CD4VS) with support for configuring a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects with and without container support. With CD4VS you can always configure Continuous Delivery for solutions under source ...

Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release

November 21, 2017 Nov 21, 2017 11/21/17
ScriptingGuy1
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language servers to provide a rich editing experience for languages that initially had no native language support in Visual Studio. With these extensions, ...

Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17
ScriptingGuy1
Visual Studio 2017 first released in March of this year. Since then, there have been five updates with each bringing more improvements and capabilities. Every improvement is geared towards making you more productive and this post aims to give you an overview of the culmination of features to date. Read on to see how you can get started working...