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Visual Studio for Mac: now generally available

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Visual Studio Blog
Today at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017 for Mac. Visual Studio for Mac is a full-featured IDE built natively for the Mac, to help you develop, debug, and test anything from mobile and web apps to games. Teams across PC and Mac can share code seamlessly by relying on the same ...

A fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
John Montgomery
In his Build 2017 keynote, Scott Guthrie made several announcements across partnerships, new Azure service capabilities, and the Visual Studio family. If you didn’t get a chance to watch the keynote, check out ScottGu's blog post. From a Visual Studio product family perspective, the significant announcements are - The general availability of Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Preview, A preview of .NET Standard 2.0 support in .NET Core, Here’s a little more about each of these announcements.

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 ...

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 ...

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 version 15.1 Preview and Windows 10 Creators Update SDK

March 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017 03/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
It’s only been a week since we released Visual Studio 2017 and we’re already working on an update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.1 Preview. This Update preview includes two main changes: improvements to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) tools to support the Creators Update SDK and the addition of the Python tools. For full details of ...

Iterations on infinity

March 8, 2017 Mar 8, 2017 03/8/17
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Developers like you live with the Visual Studio icons every day: clicking on them multiple times, staring at them side by side on the taskbar, and seeing them attached to project files. So when we update them, it's a big deal. After all, icons matter. For pictures that are at most just under a centimeter wide on a normal display (or ...