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Customize object displays in the Visual Studio debugger YOUR way

Leslie Richardson June 10, 2019 Jun 10, 2019 06/10/19

Did you know that you can view objects by more than just their types in the Watch, Autos, and Locals windows? Learn how you can customize your object views in debugger windows using DebuggerDisplay and Natvis!

Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available

Angel Zhou January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19

The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available for download. This release contains a number of improvements and additions to the core experience and different development areas, many of which are a result of your direct feedback. As always, you can check out the release notes for more details or read on for the highlights.

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

Dominic Nahous August 20, 2018 Aug 20, 2018 08/20/18

For this release of Visual Studio for Mac, we’ve focused our energy on improving product reliability, creating a better code editing experience, and making the performance second to none. We’re also exited to announce full support for Azure functions – it’s now possible to create, edit, configure, and publish your Function from within the IDE.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

John Montgomery August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

John Montgomery December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. This update contains major performance improvements, new features, as well as fixes for bugs reported by you. Some highlights are mentioned below, for the full feature list check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release notes.

Run book Run! From physical paper to executable online books

Visual Studio Blog October 26, 2017 Oct 26, 2017 10/26/17

Have you ever wanted to run the code samples while reading a book? Without having to first download the sample code, its runtime, and configure your environment so that everything is setup the way you need it? What if you could be reading a book, and immediately execute (and change!) the code without needing to install anything on your ...

Visual Studio and Xamarin take iOS support to 11

Visual Studio Blog September 26, 2017 Sep 26, 2017 09/26/17

With the first wave of new iPhone 8 devices landing in people's hands, and the installed base of iOS 11 users growing rapidly, it's an exciting time to build apps for iPhone and iPad, as well as macOS and the new 4k Apple TVs and Cellular Apple Watches. Of course, Visual Studio and Xamarin are ready to enable you as .NET developers to create ...

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'...

Build Intelligent Apps Faster with Visual Studio and the Data Science Workload

Visual Studio Blog May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

I’m excited to announce that the Data Science and analytics applications workload is available today in Visual Studio 2017. It had made a brief appearance in preview releases of Visual Studio, but had to be delayed while we completed localization and accessibility work. But now it’s once again ready for you. The Data Science (or DS) ...

A fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview

John Montgomery May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17

In his Build 2017 keynote, Scott Guthrie made several announcements across partnerships, new Azure service capabilities, and the Visual Studio family. If you didn’t get a chance to watch the keynote, check out ScottGu's blog post. From a Visual Studio product family perspective, the significant announcements are - The general availability of Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Preview, A preview of .NET Standard 2.0 support in .NET Core, Here’s a little more about each of these announcements.

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