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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

John Montgomery December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. This update contains major performance improvements, new features, as well as fixes for bugs reported by you. Some highlights are mentioned below, for the full feature list check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release notes.

Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He December 1, 2017 Dec 1, 2017 12/1/17

Today, we’re pleased to release a new extension to our Visual Studio Code Java extension family - Test Runner/Debugger for Java. It’s a lightweight test runner/debugger with below features we hope you will like. Same as the Debugger for Java, this is also an open source project. Please check out the github page ...

Spend more time working on the interesting stuff

Visual Studio Blog November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17

There’s a reason that each day thousands of developers take advantage of the rich set of extensions offered by our growing family of VS and VSTS Partners and the broader VS community. Collectively these offerings can save you and your team time in many different ways, from helping find bugs faster, to making it easier to work with data, to ...

The Latest in Developer Productivity and App Experiences

Nat Friedman November 15, 2017 Nov 15, 2017 11/15/17

Whatever the language or platform, developers want the same thing - to create app experiences that are high-quality, intelligent and personalized. Experiences that delight users and keep them engaged. To do that, we need tools that increase our productivity, so that we spend more time on what matters most to our app's success. At Connect...

Run and Debug Java 9 in Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He November 10, 2017 Nov 10, 2017 11/10/17

In the past 3 weeks, we’ve continued to see a lot of people installing and trying our tools, reading our documents, and visiting our repository. We’ve also seen a number of new issues opened by the Java community. Thank you all for trying our tools and providing feedback, all of which is motivating us to make VS Code a better tool for Java...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5 Preview

Christine Ruana October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17

Yesterday we released the second Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and we would love it if you would try it out and tell us what you think. We’ve polished up some features that were introduced with the first Preview, addressed some of the issues you’ve reported, and made improvements in the product's fundamentals such as performance, reliability, and productivity.

Open Sourcing the Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He October 23, 2017 Oct 23, 2017 10/23/17

Since we first released our Java Debugger extension for Visual Studio Code on September 28, it quickly became the most trending extension of the month. And of course, lots of feedback and suggestions were submitted from our active developer community. You shared, we listened. In this quick follow up release, we’re open sourcing both our Java...

7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

Anson Horton October 5, 2017 Oct 5, 2017 10/5/17

I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Gem #1 - Expression Evaluator Format Specifiers The part of the debugger that processes the language ...

CodePush joins Visual Studio Mobile Center

Visual Studio Blog July 31, 2017 Jul 31, 2017 07/31/17

[Update 11/15/2017: Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more on the announcement post from Connect(); 2017] About two years ago, a group of developers at Microsoft crafted a service for distributing Apache Cordova, React Native, and Windows Mobile updates to applications in the wild. They called it “CodePush...

7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio Blog July 5, 2017 Jul 5, 2017 07/5/17

Whether you are a full-time or occasional C++ developer, whether you are using an older Visual Studio version or are considering using Visual Studio for the first time, this blog post is for you. In this post I share seven reasons why Visual Studio 2017 should be your first choice of IDE for C++ development (to quickly jump to each section ...

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