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Visual Studio IDE extensions now published and managed at Marketplace

November 9, 2017 Nov 9, 2017 11/9/17
Harish Kumar Agarwal
Consumers of Visual Studio IDE extensions visit Visual Studio Marketplace to discover and acquire extensions. But extension publishers visit Visual Studio Gallery to publish and manage their Visual Studio IDE extensions. Henceforth, extension publishing and management will also be in Marketplace. In this process, all extensions in Gallery will...

Source Control Showcase: Integrating Subversion and Perforce into Visual Studio 2017

September 21, 2017 Sep 21, 2017 09/21/17
Visual Studio Blog
Last year, we highlighted the new extensibility points for our source control providers. These hooks allowed them to take advantage of our start page and status bar to provide their users a more integrated experience in Visual Studio. Two of our partners, VisualSVN and Perforce, have taken advantage of this opportunity and we’re excited to ...

Create a CI/CD pipeline for containerized ASP.NET Core projects

August 22, 2017 Aug 22, 2017 08/22/17
Ahmed Metwally
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! At //BUILD 2017, we shipped an update to the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio with support for configuring a Continuous Integration and ...

Committing with Confidence: Commit Time Code Quality Information Updated

August 21, 2017 Aug 21, 2017 08/21/17
Mark Wilson-Thomas
We are looking to improve your experience on the Visual Studio Blog. It would be very helpful if you could share your feedback via this short survey that should take less than 2 minutes. Thanks! In the earlier post “Committing with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time” , we introduced the new Build and Code ...

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17
Visual Studio Blog
As we are getting set up to launch Visual Studio 2017 tomorrow, we wanted to let you know that we have released the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017. So, you’ll be able to hit the ground running with all your favorite productivity features. The Productivity Power Tools is a collection of extensions that improve the developer ...

Developer Assistant now supports C++

July 13, 2016 Jul 13, 2016 07/13/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today we are happy to announce a major update to Developer Assistant! Developer Assistant now offers contextually aware web powered solutions for C++. Developer Assistant for Visual Studio is a productivity plugin that brings the combined power of Bing search capabilities and your development environment to solve your day-to-day developer ...