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Another Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
Thank you for taking time to try out Visual Studio 2017 RC and sharing all your feedback. Today we have another update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate which mostly contains bug fixes. Take a look at the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes and Known Issues for the full list of what’s changed with this update. Please try this latest update and share your feedback. For problems, let us know via the Report a Problem option in the upper right corner of the VS title bar. Track your feedback on the developer community portal. For suggestions, let us know through UserVoice.
Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017
[UPDATE: 28th Nov 2017] Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio now supports TFVC. You can configure continuous delivery for TFVC or Git repositories in a VSTS team project. Check out this blog post (http://aka.ms/cd4vsblog9) DevOps is all about getting your applications into customers’ hands quickly. The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio is a new extension for Visual Studio 2017 that brings DevOps capabilities to the IDE. You can use the extension to setup an automated build, test, and release pipeline on Visual Studio Team Services, for an ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET Core application targeting Azure....
Samsung releases second preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen
Samsung has released the second preview of Visual Studio Tools for Tizen today. Tizen is a Linux-based open source OS running on over 50 million Samsung devices including TVs, wearables, and mobile phones. You can now download the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen and begin building .NET applications for Tizen with Visual Studio. At Connect(); in November 2016, Samsung announced a collaboration with Microsoft to build .NET support for Tizen. Along with the announcement, Samsung released the first preview of the Visual Studio Tools for Tizen. The second preview is a significant update to the first preview. In t...
Update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
Today we have another update to Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Some of you may have noticed that yesterday we posted an RC update, but took it down because of a setup issue. The issue is now fixed so please give it a try. To try out the newest version, you can either click on the link above or click on the notification within Visual Studio. Take a look at the Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes and Known Issues for the full list of what’s available in this update, but here’s a summary: Apart from these improvements you’ll notice that we’ve removed the Data Science and Python Development workloa...
Create great looking, fast, mobile apps using JavaScript, Angular 2, and Ionic 2
In a recent Visual Studio Toolbox episode, I highlighted some new Ionic 2 templates for use with the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). These new Ionic 2 RC templates are now available for you to try out and in this post I’ll talk you through what’s new. > Download Ionic 2 templates on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery. What is Ionic? Ionic is a JavaScript framework that helps you build apps for Android, iOS, and Windows 10 devices using the design patterns of the native operating system. Ionic builds on top of Apache Cordova, an open source framework that helps you build mobile apps using ...
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Microsoft loves developers and is constantly investing in enabling the future of development with cloud-first, mobile-first solutions that serve any developer, any application, and any platform. During our Connect(); event this year we presented 15 demos in Scott Guthrie’s and Scott Hanselman’s keynotes. If you missed the keynotes, you can watch the recording in Channel 9. I highly recommend it! New products, services, and tools we announced help bring innovation to your apps. We enjoy working on the demos for the keynotes and building real-world applications through which you can directly experience what’s...
Updating Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
We announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate a few weeks ago at Connect(); 2016. For those of you who tried it, let me start by saying, “Thank you!” Already you’ve submitted several hundred issues and requests and we’re using your feedback and the telemetry on the product to improve greatly. To get the latest version of our Visual Studio 2017 RC, you can download directly from here. If you already have the RC installed, you will receive a notification in the upper-right of your Visual Studio window. There you will find a notification saying, "Update to Visual Studio" which will install t...
Azure Notebooks now support F#
Last week I blogged about the availability of the new Data Storage and Data Science workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC. The Data Science workload specifically provides support for the following: These three languages and their corresponding stacks cover just about every data processing, technical computing, analytics and machine learning scenario imaginable. For the past few months, the free Azure Notebooks service has supported R and Python. We are pleased to announce the availability of our first edition of preview support for the F# language to match the Visual Studio Data Science workload. Azure...
More Productive JavaScript in Visual Studio 2017 RC
We know you choose Visual Studio for JavaScript editing because it provides tools that make you the most productive. In Visual Studio 2017 RC, we’ve been focusing on improving the things you use most so that you can spend even more time focusing on coding. In this post, we will highlight some of the most exciting improvements to IntelliSense and code navigation that are available today in Visual Studio 2017 RC. Richer IntelliSense JavaScript IntelliSense in Visual Studio 2017 RC will now display much more useful information on parameter and member lists. This additional information is provided by TypeScript, wh...