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Announcing New Innovations to Help Every Developer Achieve More with Microsoft Azure

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Visual Studio Blog
More than ever, organizations are relying on developers to create breakthrough experiences. From start-ups to enterprises to government agencies, developers are creating new digital experiences that are redefining organizations to empower us all. The cloud is a key enabler for this era, bringing powerful, new technology to developers across ...

Automatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services

April 25, 2017 Apr 25, 2017 04/25/17
Visual Studio Blog
Over the last few updates we’ve been working on evening out our support for popular scenarios. Earlier this month we added support for setting up an automated DevOps pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that pulls source from a public or private GitHub repository. TFVC is another scenario we’re working on to round out the ...

Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud and Beyond

April 12, 2017 Apr 12, 2017 04/12/17
Visual Studio Blog
In November, we announced Visual Studio for Mac, a fully featured IDE that we hope will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid foundation for mobile development using Xamarin, and cloud development using .NET Core. Over the past few months we have been working on porting C# code that was ...

Visual Studio 2017 Update

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
John Montgomery
We’ve released an update to Visual Studio 2017 and you can download it and start using it today. In this update, which will show up in Help/About as 15.1 (26403.0), we’ve added support for the Windows 10 Creators Update SDK, added support in Xamarin Workbooks for C# 7, and updated the Redgate Data Tools. There is also a set of performance improvements you can read about in Bertan’s post, Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements.

Become a Mobile Developer with Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin University

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Visual Studio Blog
Millions of developers around the world use the power of C# and .NET to deliver amazing apps. Whether you’re building for desktop with Windows Forms or UWP, or for the web with ASP.NET WebForms, or MVC, .NET’s flexible tools and frameworks help you ship software that solves almost any problem. In the mobile world, Visual Studio Tools for ...

Apply Now for Microsoft’s Go Mobile Tech Workshops

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Visual Studio Blog
This is your opportunity to bring Microsoft engineering experts to discuss app development and architecture best practices with your team 1:1  We’re excited to announce that the Microsoft engineering team is offering a limited number of technical sessions to help your team build better mobile apps faster. The Go Mobile Tech ...

Visual Studio 2017 Poster

March 13, 2017 Mar 13, 2017 03/13/17
Visual Studio Blog
Since we launched Visual Studio 2017 last week, hundreds of thousands of customers like you have already installed and started using Visual Studio 2017, and we’re excited to see what you create. Visual Studio 2017 contains so many new features. From productivity enhancements to new C++ capabilities. Start using our ASP.NET Core Tooling along...

Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
Today during the Visual Studio launch event, we announced that we’ve partnered with Redgate to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Redgate Data Tools includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development. Here’s a brief ...