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December 2016 - Visual Studio Blog

Create great looking, fast, mobile apps using JavaScript, Angular 2, and Ionic 2

December 20, 2016 Dec 20, 2016 12/20/16
Jordan Matthiesen
In a recent Visual Studio Toolbox episode, I highlighted some new Ionic 2 templates for use with the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). These new Ionic 2 RC templates are now available for you to try out and in this post I’ll talk you through what’s new. > Download Ionic 2 templates on the Visual Studio Extension ...

Connect(“demos”); // 2016: BikeSharing360 on GitHub

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Visual Studio Blog
Microsoft loves developers and is constantly investing in enabling the future of development with cloud-first, mobile-first solutions that serve any developer, any application, and any platform. During our Connect(); event this year we presented 15 demos in Scott Guthrie’s and Scott Hanselman’s keynotes. If you missed the keynotes, you ...

Updating Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

December 12, 2016 Dec 12, 2016 12/12/16
Visual Studio Blog
We announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate a few weeks ago at Connect(); 2016. For those of you who tried it, let me start by saying, “Thank you!” Already you’ve submitted several hundred issues and requests and we’re using your feedback and the telemetry on the product to improve greatly. To get the latest ...

Azure Notebooks now support F#

December 5, 2016 Dec 5, 2016 12/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Last week I blogged about the availability of the new Data Storage and Data Science workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC. The Data Science workload specifically provides support for the following: R integration, along with Microsoft’s optimized R libraries Python integration, along with the Anaconda distro F# integration with FSharp....