Tag : C#

Visual Studio for Mac as the default editor for Unity

Jb Evain January 9, 2018 Jan 9, 2018 01/9/18

Unity is a powerful solution to create games for a multitude of platforms, from mobiles to consoles, desktop and web games. Since Unity 5.2, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Unity have been the default experience on Windows. When we released Visual Studio for Mac last year, Unity was among the first scenarios we supported out ...

Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers

Kasey Uhlenhuth November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17

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...

Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update

Viktor Veis November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17

On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual Studio needs to process. Over the last six months, we looked at ways to make solution load much faster, even for large solutions. We are happy to ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released

John Montgomery August 14, 2017 Aug 14, 2017 08/14/17

Today we have several releases to talk about: there’s the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, the release of .NET Core 2.0, and a release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.1. If you’d like to jump right in, download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, download .NET Core 2.0, and download Visual Studio for Mac. You can also access the latest Visual Studio 2017 product releases through an Azure virtual machine where we offer the recommended installation of the most popular workloads and components.

All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build

Nat Friedman May 11, 2017 May 11, 2017 05/11/17

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'...

Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise

Visual Studio Blog March 9, 2017 Mar 9, 2017 03/9/17

Live Unit Testing is present in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio 2017 and it’s available for C# and VB projects that target the .NET Framework. [UPDATE 5/23/2017 : We now also support .NET Core Framework. Check out this post announcing .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 to learn about it.] This is a more comprehensive blog than the one we ...

Visual Studio 2017: Productivity, Performance, and Partners

John Montgomery March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17

Today we released Visual Studio 2017. Start your download and read on to learn more about some of the highlights of this release. For the complete list of changes in the release, check out the Visual Studio 2017 release notes. Some of the things I would like to highlight are: Fundamentals: Productivity and Performance...

On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation

Visual Studio Blog June 17, 2016 Jun 17, 2016 06/17/16

For those of you who have been closely tracking the progress of our next release of Visual Studio (codenamed Visual Studio “15”), you’ll know that one of our big product release themes is installation and update. We are refactoring our installation to be smaller by default, faster and more reliable, and easier to manage, as described in ...

The C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused IDE Experience

Visual Studio Blog November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14

The new C# and Visual Basic code-focused IDE experience in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview is significantly improved over the experience in Visual Studio 2013 and I’m excited to share some highlights with you. We’ll look at a few key areas: Many of the new and refreshed features that I describe below come to us by way of ...

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