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Continuous Delivery Tools Extension for Visual Studio 2017

February 6, 2017 Feb 6, 2017 02/6/17
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATE: 28th Nov 2017] Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio now supports TFVC. You can configure continuous delivery for TFVC or Git repositories in a VSTS team project. Check out this blog post (http://aka.ms/cd4vsblog9) DevOps is all about getting your applications into customers’ hands quickly. The Continuous Delivery Tools for...

Create great looking, fast, mobile apps using JavaScript, Angular 2, and Ionic 2

December 20, 2016 Dec 20, 2016 12/20/16
Jordan Matthiesen
In a recent Visual Studio Toolbox episode, I highlighted some new Ionic 2 templates for use with the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). These new Ionic 2 RC templates are now available for you to try out and in this post I’ll talk you through what’s new. > Download Ionic 2 templates on the Visual Studio Extension ...

Connect(“demos”); // 2016: BikeSharing360 on GitHub

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Visual Studio Blog
Microsoft loves developers and is constantly investing in enabling the future of development with cloud-first, mobile-first solutions that serve any developer, any application, and any platform. During our Connect(); event this year we presented 15 demos in Scott Guthrie’s and Scott Hanselman’s keynotes. If you missed the keynotes, you ...

Azure Notebooks now support F#

December 5, 2016 Dec 5, 2016 12/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Last week I blogged about the availability of the new Data Storage and Data Science workloads in Visual Studio 2017 RC. The Data Science workload specifically provides support for the following: These three languages and their corresponding stacks cover just about every data processing, technical computing, analytics and ...

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today during the Connect(); 2016 event we announced the availability of the release candidate of the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Thank you to those who tried out the pre-builds and previews and provided feedback. Your feedback always plays an important role in the successful release of Visual Studio. ...

Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
At this morning’s Connect(); 2016 keynote, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family.Visual Studio for Mac is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and .NET. It is a one-stop shop for .NET development on the Mac, including ...

Join us this November for Connect(); 2016

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to save the date for what promises to be our best Connect(); yet. At Connect(); 2016, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Principal Program...

Visual Studio “15” Preview 4

August 22, 2016 Aug 22, 2016 08/22/16
John Montgomery
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. The highlight of this release is that nearly all of VS is running on the new setup engine, resulting in a smaller, faster and less impactful installation. The smallest install is ...

Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts

August 15, 2016 Aug 15, 2016 08/15/16
Visual Studio Blog
You've told us that Visual Studio makes you sign in WAY too often. Over the last year, we've released several improvements to help address your feedback. The keychain we released with Visual Studio 2015 made it possible to manage multiple identities in VS and gave you single sign-on across the IDE. In the last few updates, we’ve made changes...

Building Universal Windows apps targeting the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK

August 2, 2016 Aug 2, 2016 08/2/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today we are releasing an update to the Universal Windows App development tools in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 to enable you to build apps that target the Windows 10 Anniversary SDK (build 14393). In addition, the Windows Store is now open for submissions of apps that target the Windows 10 Anniversary Update SDK. The Windows 10 Anniversary ...