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March 2018 - Visual Studio Blog

Adding support for Debug Adapters to Visual Studio IDE

March 26, 2018 Mar 26, 2018 03/26/18
Visual Studio Blog
Since its release, Visual Studio Code's extension model, based on well-known web technologies such as TypeScript and JSON, has attracted a great deal of participation from the community, with hundreds of extensions published to provide support for exciting new languages and technologies. Visual Studio 2017 took the first steps towards ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 2

March 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018 03/21/18
Christine Ruana
Today we released the second preview of the next update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We hope that you will use this Preview and share your feedback with us. The top highlights of this Preview include - Improved intellisense for conditional XAML, additional C++ development improvements, streamlined configuration for updating UWP apps, inclusion of TypeScript 2.8, ability to debug JavaScript files using Microsoft Edge, tooling to prevent Web application permission problems, support for building additional project types on the build servers.

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 Preview 1

March 21, 2018 Mar 21, 2018 03/21/18
Visual Studio Blog
Earlier this month, we released version 7.4 of Visual Studio for Mac, our IDE for developers on macOS who are building mobile, web, and cloud apps. Today, we’re announcing the first preview of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, which you can get by changing the updater channel in Visual Studio for Mac to use the Beta channel. In this release...

Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code

March 19, 2018 Mar 19, 2018 03/19/18
Xiaokai He
After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve added initial support for JUnit 5, including running, debugging test cases as well as test report. Please give us a try and let us know your ...

Visual Studio at GDC 2018

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18
Visual Studio Blog
Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event looking to join the growing community of more than half a million monthly active developers building great games with Visual Studio today. ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1

March 13, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 03/13/18
Christine Ruana
The top highlights of this Preview include productivity enhancements, better diagnostics, additional C++ development improvements, better management of Android and iOS environments, updated tooling for Universal Windows Platform and .NET Core projects, and an improved update experience.  Please note that this is the first set of version 15.7 features; more goodness awaits in the next Preview.