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September 2017 - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11

September 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017 09/26/17
Visual Studio Blog
With the first wave of new iPhone 8 devices landing in people's hands, and the installed base of iOS 11 users growing rapidly, it's an exciting time to build apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as macOS and the new 4k Apple TVs and Cellular Apple Watches. Of course, Visual Studio and Xamarin are ready to enable you as .NET developers to create ...

Source Control Showcase: Integrating Subversion and Perforce into Visual Studio 2017

September 21, 2017 Sep 21, 2017 09/21/17
Visual Studio Blog
Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more integrated experience in Visual Studio. Two of our partners, VisualSVN and Perforce, have taken advantage of this opportunity and we’re excited to ...

7 More Lesser-known Debugging Tactics for Visual Studio

September 18, 2017 Sep 18, 2017 09/18/17
Kaycee Anderson
So, you really liked learning about 7 Lesser Known Debugging Hacks for Visual Studio? Good news is that there is always more to learn! The Visual Studio debugger is an enchanting creature that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is bursting with tools that can make debugging easier… if you know ...

Debug live apps in Azure with the Snappoints and Logpoints preview

September 13, 2017 Sep 13, 2017 09/13/17
Visual Studio Blog
At Build, we introduced the Snapshot Debugger: a new tool that enables you to debug production environments in Azure with minimal impact. The Snapshot Debugger enables you to get to the root cause of the “but it worked locally!” production issues with ease. We previously released functionality to automatically capture snapshots when your ...

A significant update to the XAML Designer

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
Visual Studio Blog
The XAML designers in Visual Studio and Blend have been powerful tools for developers and designers alike to build beautiful user experiences for Windows applications. Initially designed for WPF development in 2007, we have made significant changes to support a wide variety of XAML platforms over the last decade. We’ve also added new ...

New Xamarin University Webinar: Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
Visual Studio Blog
Join me on Thursday, September 21 at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for my “Exploring UrhoSharp 3D with Xamarin Workbooks” webinar, where I’ll combine my love of graphics programming with my passion for helping developers build better apps. Whether you’re just getting started or an experienced developer, you’ll learn how to use your ....