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7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017

October 5, 2017 Oct 5, 2017 10/5/17
Anson Horton
I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see infrequently used but can save loads of time! Gem #1 - Expression Evaluator Format Specifiers The part of the debugger that processes the language ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Released

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

7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017

July 5, 2017 Jul 5, 2017 07/5/17
Visual Studio Blog
Whether you are a full-time or occasional C++ developer, whether you are using an older Visual Studio version or are considering using Visual Studio for the first time, this blog post is for you. In this post I share seven reasons why Visual Studio 2017 should be your first choice of IDE for C++ development (to quickly jump to each section ...

Hands on with Visual Studio for Mac

June 22, 2017 Jun 22, 2017 06/22/17
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio for Mac was released just under two months ago at Build 2017, and already we’ve seen tremendous growth in .NET developers working on the Mac. Visual Studio for Mac enables you to build native apps for macOS, native mobile apps for iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Android, using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms; and web sites and services using...

A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017

May 12, 2017 May 12, 2017 05/12/17
Visual Studio Blog
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...

All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build

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