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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters
Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feed...
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview
A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. You can either download the Preview, or, if you already have it installed, click on the notification you’ll receive in the product informing you that the update is available. This latest preview contains new features, productivity improvements, and other enhancements that address our customers' feedback. Read the feature highlight summary in this blog post.
Post-Connect(); 2017 Visual Studio Partner Webinar Series
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this week, we released 13 Visual Studio partner webinars that build off of some of the major announcement areas of Connect(); 2017 and provide applications of developer tools that, literally, 'connect' with the latest and greatest from Azure, SQL Server 2017, and Visual Studio. Developer Tools for Application Innovation Scott Guthrie introduced advancements in developer productivity in...
Snapshot Debugging with Visual Studio 2017: Now Ready for Production
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Earlier this year we previewed the Snapshot Debugger, a tool that enables you to debug web apps running in production in Azure. With the general availability of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise 15.5 this week, Snapshot Debugger is now available for you to get started. Read more about how here. Snapshot Debugging Overview If an issue happens in production, you may find yourself digging through logs or...
Join Us to Learn How to Build Android 8.0 Oreo and iOS 11 apps with Visual Studio
[Hello, we are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It will be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes to fill out. Thanks!] Visual Studio and Xamarin enable .NET developers everywhere to use their favorite language and full-featured IDE to create native Android, iOS, and UWP apps, even incorporating the latest and greatest from Android 8.0 Oreo and iOS 11. To help you get the most out of the new Google and Apple APIs, we’re hosting two webinars: one for all things Android 8.0 Oreo and one dedicated to iOS 11. In these...
Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released
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
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 https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-java-test/ for more details and feedback. Along with the new extension, we’re also updating our Debugger extension with version 0.4.0. With this release, we’re adding a few useful tools to make Java debugger in VS Code more enjoyable. Launch ...
TFVC support and other enhancements hit Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio
A year ago, we released the first preview of the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio (CD4VS) with support for configuring a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects with and without container support. With CD4VS you can always configure Continuous Delivery for solutions under source control to App Service, and Service Fabric Clusters. Today, we announce the support for configuring Continuous Delivery for solutions under TFVC source control on VSTS. When you click configure Continuous Delivery on the solution menu, CD4VS detects the source control pro...
Announcing Language Server Protocol Preview Release
Visual Studio is joining Visual Studio Code in offering support for the Language Server Protocol. As an extension author, you can now write Visual Studio extensions that leverage existing language servers to provide a rich editing experience for languages that initially had no native language support in Visual Studio. With these extensions, you can use Visual Studio to code in your favorite language! This is a preview release that is available as an extension on Visual Studio Marketplace and can only be installed on Visual Studio 2017 Preview. Read our documentation to find out more. What is an LSP? The ...
Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers
Visual Studio 2017 first released in March of this year. Since then, there have been five updates with each bringing more improvements and capabilities. Every improvement is geared towards making you more productive and this post aims to give you an overview of the culmination of features to date. Read on to see how you can get started working on your projects quickly and write better code faster. Download Visual Studio 2017 Preview today. New Install Experience, Performance and Reliability The first thing you’ll notice with Visual Studio 2017 is the new install experience which lets you pick and choose whic...