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Apply Now for Microsoft’s Go Mobile Tech Workshops
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 Workshops are 3 hour sessions dedicated to your team, covering everything from your technology stack and architecture to the latest in Visual Studio 2017, Azure, and DevOps best practices. Sign-up now What’s in it for you Sample Agenda Don’t miss out—apply for a workshop today...
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.1 Preview and Windows 10 Creators Update SDK
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 what’s in this preview, you can read the release notes. A Note on Updates There’s a notable change we’ve made with previews in Visual Studio 2017: you’re able to install previews side by side with the released version of Visual Studio. That means you can use Visual Studio 2017 for...
Visual Studio 2017 Poster
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 with Live Unit Testing. Explore C# 7 and our new database DevOps features that help improve your productivity. We thought it would be fun to put together a poster that shows off some of our favorite parts of Visual Studio 2017. You’ll also see some helpful tips and tricks ...
Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise
Live Unit Testing is present in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017 and it’s available for C# and VB projects that target the .NET Framework. [UPDATE 5/23/2017 : We now also support .NET Core Framework. Check out this post announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 to learn about it.] This is a more comprehensive blog than the one we published in November. In this blog, we focus on all capabilities including some that were not mentioned in the earlier blog. It also includes an updated video that demos all these capabilities. FAQs are covered as well at the end. This is a productivity feature, which provides r...
Iterations on infinity
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 under half an inch, for those of you who aren’t British like me), icons are huge. They pack a lot of meaning into a small space. They offer clues as to what kind of experience you’ll have with the application the icon represents. Some icons even establish an emotional connection: th...
Optimize your productivity with .NET in Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2017 makes you more productive by getting you to your code fast and helping you write code quickly. With improvements to performance, navigation, and debugging as well as the additions of new refactorings, code style configuration/enforcement, and live unit testing, this release is chock full of advancements. This post shows you how to take full advantage of these features. Getting Started Visual Studio 2017 significantly cuts down the time it takes to install, open Visual Studio, and write code in your solution. The new Visual Studio installer gives you the freedom to pick and choose exactly what...
Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017
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 overview of each of them: You can install Redgate Data Tools using the Visual Studio Installer through the Data storage and processing workload or through the Individual components tab. In this post, I’ll highlight how each of the Redgate Data Tools can improve your S...
New benefits for Visual Studio subscribers and Dev Essentials members
Today at the Visual Studio 2017 launch event we announced a set of new and updated benefits for our subscribers. If you missed any of the event or want to watch the on-demand trainings, check out the launch event page. If you’re a current Visual Studio subscriber or Dev Essentials program member activate your new benefits to get started right away. To learn more about our developer subscriptions and programs visit the Visual Studio site. We’re pleased to announce the following new and updated benefits: Office365 Dev Account Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers now get multi-user access with 25-seat Office365 de...
Mobile Center: Xamarin support, detailed app analytics, and more
Since our announcement of the Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview at Connect();, we’ve had an amazing response from the developer community. I’d like to thank the thousands of you who’ve created accounts, kicked the tires of our lifecycle services, and provided feedback to help us create the simplest, most effective way to build, test, deploy, and monitor mobile apps from a single service. As we head toward General Availability, we’ve incorporated that feedback into our roadmap, added new services, doubled down on existing services, and increased the size of our engineering team to make it all happen. Here’s an...