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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
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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
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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 ...

A significant update to the XAML Designer

September 11, 2017 Sep 11, 2017 09/11/17
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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
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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 ....