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Analysis Services and Reporting Services extensions for Visual Studio 2022 are here!

July 12, 2022 Jul 12, 2022 07/12/22
Leslie Richardson
We’re happy to announce the popular and long-awaited Analysis Services, RDLC Report Designer, and Reporting Services extensions are available for Visual Studio 2022!  Here’s how these Microsoft extensions for SQL Server can further enhance your business intelligence solution development environment. SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) ...

Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18
Dan Taylor
Today at the EuroPython conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we are introducing support for Python in the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as new improvements in editing for Python developers in Visual Studio Code. AI-assisted IntelliSense for Python At Microsoft Build 2018, we first announced IntelliCode, a set of AI-...

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18
Dan Taylor
Microsoft's teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn semantics...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
John Montgomery
Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon. Before digging in, I’d like to call out other ...

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.

Connect(); 2017: SmartHotel360 Demo Apps and Architecture

December 13, 2017 Dec 13, 2017 12/13/17
Visual Studio Blog
Last month we hosted Microsoft Connect(); in New York City. Connect(); is a three-day, in-person and online developer event. If you missed it, no worries! You can watch our keynotes, sessions, and on-demand videos on Channel 9. For the past five months our keynote demo team worked on a new set of reference apps. We used most of these apps ...

Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of ...