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A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017
We’re delighted to announce that our rich Python toolchain is fully available in Visual Studio 2017. Installation of Python tools, interpreters, runtimes, and numerous other features are directly integrated into the Visual Studio 2017 installer. Just select the Python development or Data science and analytical applications workloads, both of which let you select specific interpreters like Anaconda and also provide a variety of productivity features: In addition, for the first time we’ve localized Python tools into the same 14 languages as Visual Studio, making for a seamless experience across the en...
All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build
We released the Xamarin SDKs as a part of Visual Studio a year ago, open sourcing them in the process. Since then, we've been busy improving the experience of mobile developers using Visual Studio, launching iOS simulator remoting, Workbooks, Inspector, the Xamarin.Forms Previewer, and support for iOS 10 and Android N. In the last year, we've also created two new products—Visual Studio for Mac, which Scott Guthrie announced as generally available to all Visual Studio customers yesterday, and Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview), for which we're releasing major new updates today. Today we've also released t...
More Platforms, More Choices, More Power: Visual Studio Mobile Center at Build
[Update 11/15/2017: Visual Studio Mobile Center is now Visual Studio App Center. Learn more on the announcement post from Connect(); 2017] Last fall we introduced Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview), a cloud service designed to help developers manage the lifecycle of their mobile apps and ship higher-quality apps faster than ever. Today we announced several exciting improvements that expand the features of the service and extend Mobile Center to new audiences and platforms. What’s New Windows Support From the beginning, we designed Mobile Center to help all application developers build and ship higher qualit...
Unity game development with Visual Studio for Mac
In 2014, we released the first version of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU). Since then, we’ve successfully released multiple versions of the Tools for Unity on Windows, but never had the opportunity to bring our tools to Unity developers running macOS. Today at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017 for Mac. This is a full-featured IDE built for the Mac, to help you create anything from mobile and web apps to games. We’re excited to include the Tools for Unity in this release, and give the opportunity to Unity developers on macOS to use Visual Studio ...
Build Intelligent Apps Faster with Visual Studio and the Data Science Workload
I’m excited to announce that the Data Science and analytics applications workload is available today in Visual Studio 2017. It had made a brief appearance in preview releases of Visual Studio, but had to be delayed while we completed localization and accessibility work. But now it’s once again ready for you. The Data Science (or DS) workload brings three languages and their respective runtime distributions to Visual Studio as a single workload: Today R and Python are two of the primary scripting languages used for data science. They are both easy to learn and are supported by a rich ecosystem of pac...
New benefits for Visual Studio subscribers and Dev Essentials members
Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we’re excited to announce a set of new benefits for Visual Studio Subscribers and Dev Essentials program members. 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. Here are the details: Visual Studio for Mac Visual Studio for Mac is an IDE for developers on macOS looking to design, build, deploy, and manage modern applications, games, and services targeting Android, iOS, macOS, web, and the cloud. Visual Studio ...
Configure Microsoft Graph applications in the latest Visual Studio 2017 Preview
In Visual Studio, you can now easily configure your projects to access data across Office 365 and Azure Active Directory through the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Graph serves as the single gateway for developers to access APIs for Exchange, SharePoint, Azure AD, OneNote, Planner, Excel, and more. It provides one REST API endpoint across all of Microsoft’s APIs, and includes access to insights and relationship analysis powered by its intelligent engine. This means that you no longer have to integrate individual Microsoft services separately into your apps, enabling you to leverage many different services easily and...
Visual Studio for Mac: now generally available
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 solutions and projects. This is all offered in an IDE that is natively designed for the Mac and feels right at home for any Mac user. Workloads for mobile, web, cloud and gaming Mobile Development with C# and .NET Visual Studio for Mac provides an amazing experience for creating ...
A fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview
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.