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Announcing New Innovations to Help Every Developer Achieve More with Microsoft Azure
More than ever, organizations are relying on developers to create breakthrough experiences. From start-ups to enterprises to government agencies, developers are creating new digital experiences that are redefining organizations to empower us all. The cloud is a key enabler for this era, bringing powerful, new technology to developers across the globe. But, the cloud also brings with it an unprecedented pace of technology releases and heightened expectations on developers to deliver breakthrough experiences all the time. It is this understanding that shapes how we build and deliver Microsoft Azure. This morning, ...
Automatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services
Over the last few updates we’ve been working on evening out our support for popular scenarios. Earlier this month we added support for setting up an automated DevOps pipeline in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) that pulls source from a public or private GitHub repository. TFVC is another scenario we’re working on to round out the extension. This update continues to round out the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio extension by adding support for automating the build and deployment of an ASP.NET Core application targeting Azure app services. Now the extension can configure a VSTS build and release defini...
New Offline Books for Visual Studio 2017 Available for Download
Today we are happy to announce that new offline books for Visual Studio 2017 are now available for download. Now you can easily download content published on MSDN and Docs for consumption on-the-go, without needing an active internet connection. We are also hosting the book generation and fetching services entirely on Microsoft Azure, which makes them more performant and reliable – we will be continuously updating the content, so you will no longer be stuck with outdated books and wait 6 months for the next release. The process to create and update an offline book now takes hours instead of months! The new off...
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 Preview
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 Preview. For information on what this preview contains, please refer to the Visual Studio 2017 Preview release notes. If you haven’t heard about our new Preview releases, do take a few minutes to learn about them on the Visual Studio Preview page on visualstudio.com. As always, we welcome your feedback. For problems, let us know via the Report a Problem option in the upper right corner, either from the installer or the Visual Studio IDE itself. Track your feedback on the developer community portal. For suggestions, let us know through UserVoice.
Visual Studio for Mac to the Cloud and Beyond
In November, we announced Visual Studio for Mac, a fully featured IDE that we hope will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid foundation for mobile development using Xamarin, and cloud development using .NET Core. Over the past few months we have been working on porting C# code that was originally designed to work on Windows to the Mac. Luckily for us, the architecture of Visual Studio is so good that reusing the code has been a breeze. This has been helped by both the love and dedication that our Mac and Windows teams have, to create a great developer experience ...
End of Support for Visual Studio 2008 – in One Year
In line with our ten-year support policy, Visual Studio 2008, its associated products, runtimes, and components will cease to be supported from April 10, 2018. Though your Visual Studio 2008 applications will continue to work, we encourage you to port, migrate, and upgrade your Visual Studio projects over the next year, to ensure you continue to receive support. Visit visualstudio.com to get the most up-to-date version of Visual Studio. Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support, or hotfixes when support ends on April 10, 2018, for the following products: ...
Visual Studio 2017 Update
We’ve released an update to Visual Studio 2017 and you can download it and start using it today. In this update, which will show up in Help/About as 15.1 (26403.0), we’ve added support for the Windows 10 Creators Update SDK, added support in Xamarin Workbooks for C# 7, and updated the Redgate Data Tools. There is also a set of performance improvements you can read about in Bertan’s post, Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements.
Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements
Performance was a big focus area for Visual Studio 2017, with improvements in many areas, including: There are also some notable improvements in terms of memory usage in key scenarios, which should significantly reduce out of memory crashes (you can now open very large solutions; solutions that were simply impossible to open in previous versions). And Visual Studio 2017 has better identification of extensions or tool windows that may be slowing down key scenarios like startup, solution load and typing. Start your coding faster with faster startup and solution load Right after installation, you wi...
Continuous Delivery Tools Adds GitHub Support and My Build Notifications
The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio shipped last month as a Microsoft DevLabs extension to experiment with some of the latest ideas for setting up and working with a DevOps pipeline. As with any experiment the goal is to learn and test our hypotheses. The enthusiasm and feedback has validated just how much opportunity there is to help developers continuously deliver value to their users. We’ve shipped several incremental updates that fix bugs and other minor usability improvements. Our latest update has several new improvements: Let’s walkthrough some of these improvements. Configuri...