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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release notes and list of bugs submitted by you that are fixed. If you prefer to first try these updates without installing the release, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure. A couple of notable additions to try: Read on f...
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.
Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code
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-assisted capabilities to improve developer productivity. We shipped a preview extension showing the first of these capabilities: presenting the most relevant completions as you type in Visual Studio. Today, we are bringing the power of machine learning trained on over 2,000 open...
Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code
Learn how to use the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code.
Azure Service Fabric Mesh tools now available for Visual Studio 2017
Azure Service Fabric is a market-tested distributed systems platform for running scalable and reliable applications on microservices and containers. Up until now, Service Fabric required you to create and manage the clusters and their nodes using virtual machine scale sets. With today’s announcement of Azure Service Fabric Mesh, you’ll be able to use Service Fabric without managing infrastructure such as VMs, storage, or networking. Additionally, we’ve released Service Fabric Mesh tooling in Visual Studio 2017 to help you build applications. Previously, you had to describe your Service Fabric applications with...
Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces, a cloud-native development experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), where you can work on your applications while always staying connected with the cloud and your team. Over the last year, we have spoken to many developers working in different languages and platforms who are exploring Kubernetes. They are excited about the opportunities it presents for them to build cloud-native applications with containers and microservices without having to do any infrastructure management or orchestration. We are also seeing enterprise teams migrat...
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3
We're happy to share the highlights of the latest Visual Studio 2017 preview, which is now available for download, including - Productivity and Performance improvements, updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, right-click context menu productivity improvements, more C++ productivity improvements in IntelliSense, Code Analysis, and Just My Code debugging, Azure Development improvements, more Library Manager features, and Mobile Development improvements such as faster Android incremental builds and inclusion of Xamarin.Essentials to facilitate building native apps.
Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools
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 with powerful capabilities for a wide variety of applications from writing scripts, to building web services, to building machine learning models. In this post we’ll take a tour of Python Developer tools in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Azure, and more. For more inform...
Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools
Kubernetes is an open source system that is quickly emerging as the preferred container orchestration system for applications of all shapes and sizes, simplifying the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers. It runs in a variety of environments, including on premises as well as in cloud providers, such as Microsoft’s own Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Here on the Visual Studio team, we are working on ways to better support developers who are building containerized applications that target Kubernetes. In talking to these developers, we’ve heard that it can be challenging to create Dockerf...