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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!
We are excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses on stability and security, along with continuous improvements for ...
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Find Your Favorite Visual Studio Extension
One of the greatest strengths of Visual Studio is the vibrancy of the partner ecosystem that surrounds it. There are thousands of extensions available for Visual Studio that enhance the editor experience, support new languages, add time-saving components to your toolbox, and integrate with other developer services. In the last year alone, over 1,000 free and paid extensions have been added to the Gallery, and of those we wanted to highlight a few of our favorites and encourage you to try them out for yourself! Alive Alive brings live coding to Visual Studio. As you write C# code, the Alive extension r...
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP
Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP. Our focus for this release has been stability and performance, along with responding to feedback you’ve given us on Visual Studio 2015 RTM and Update 1. Here are the biggest things you’ll find in this update: We’ve also added a number of features across a variety of languages and tools that you can read about in the release notes. There are two that I’d like to call our here: Again, there’s much more, including additional Git-related improvements, that you can find in the release notes: Description of Visual Studio 2015 ...
Write once and deploy to Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Azure Stack from Visual Studio
The Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview gives enterprises the ability to deliver Azure applications and services from their own datacenters. Today, we're happy to share that we've built Azure Stack support into Visual Studio's Azure Resource Group deployment process. Enterprises today must manage both hyper-scale web applications and complex requirements such as ensuring regulatory compliance and data sovereignty. To meet these needs, Microsoft lets enterprises approach the cloud as a model rather than a place: Azure and Azure Stack share a standardized architecture, portal, and application model, allowing d...
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.2
A few months back we released Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 (VSTU), the first release to be natively supported by Unity on Windows, making it much easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE while developing Unity games. Today, we’re pleased to announce the VSTU 2.2 release that fixes common integration issues that developers are facing. You can download VSTU directly from Visual Studio or from the Visual Studio Gallery: Main changes And for those of you working on multiplayer games, we’ve added support for the new networking messages in our wizards...
Free Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program now includes $300 in Azure credits and Exclusive Xamarin University access
In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free. Over the past 75 days more than 400,000 developers have signed up for the program to take advantage of deep technical training from Pluralsight and Wintellect, as well as development tools, cloud services for team collaboration, OS downloads, mentoring and support. Today we’re pleased to announce two new benefits for Dev Essentials members: If you haven't already, join the thousands of developers who are already using Dev Essentia...
Apache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code
Thousands of developers already use Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova—affectionately abbreviated as “TACO”—to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using a shared JavaScript codebase. Within the IDE, TACO provides everything you need to install and configure the native SDKs, preview your app, debug on emulators and devices, and even manage continuous integration/deployment via Visual Studio Team Services. Today, we are pleased to announce new ways to build, debug and preview Cordova apps using your favorite light-weight text editor (it is your favorite, right?): VS Code and the Cordova Tools ex...
Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2
In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, and a little more. Connect(); //2015: Our second Connect(); event was, to my mind, even more impressive than the first. I say this not just for the news and announcements, as John Montgomery reviews in his post, but for the way that all the demos tied together into one story that really illustrated the comprehensive platforms and tools that Microsoft is now delivering. Those demos were all...
Top News from October-December 2015, Part 1
It’s been a few months since our last roll-up of top developer stories, so I’ll be catching up with the news from last fall in two posts. We’ll start here in Part 1 with Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, languages, and a few other tools for good measure. Part 2 will cover a variety of topics including Connect(); //2015, Windows 10, cross-platform development,. Visual Studio Code, and a number of other goodies. So let’s get started.Visual Studio Update 1: almost like clockwork, John Montgomery announced the CTP (October), RC (November), and RTM (December) releases of Visual Studio Update 1. Amo...
Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5
Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new developer blog that you can follow to keep up to date with tips, tricks, and articles from our development team.New in Visual Studio TACO Update 5In Visual Studio 2015, you should see a prompt to download and install the new Visual Studio TACO Update 5 release.The top changes in this release are: Read more from our developers, or go to the release notes for Update 5.Keeping in touch with you!In ...