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Save with the Unity Pro and Visual Studio Professional Bundle

Jb Evain August 16, 2018 Aug 16, 2018 08/16/18

The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out, as your team’s size and success grows, so does the need for professional tools. We’re happy to announce in partnership with Unity ...

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 ...

How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers

Kasey Uhlenhuth July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.

Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace

Deborah Chen May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18

Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.

Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together

Jb Evain May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18

The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It's the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can read the full blog post by Unity for all the details on what’s new in the 2018.1 release. First and foremost, we're thrilled Unity chose ...

Microsoft Build 2018: New releases for Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core and Xamarin.Forms

Julia Liuson May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

At Microsoft Build this year we have many exciting announcements - .NET Core 2.1 RC, Future of Windows Desktop Development, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5, Xamarin Forms 3.0 General Availability, Visual Studio Live Share Public Preview, and we introduce Visual Studio IntelliCode.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and version 15.8 Preview 1

John Montgomery May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Today at Build, we announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 and the first preview of the next update, Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 1. If you would rather try these without installing them, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure that will be available soon. Before digging in, I’d like to call out other ...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond

Visual Studio Blog May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we're excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. We have also continued to bring more Visual Studio 2017 ...

Supporting Jetty for Java in Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He May 1, 2018 May 1, 2018 05/1/18

Eclipse Jetty is a popular web server and servlet container in Java community. We’ve released a new Jetty extension for Visual Studio Code that makes it easy to run and deploy WAR packages (Web Application aRchive), operate your Jetty servers, and interact with your application from within the editor. Today this extension includes the ...

Visual Studio 2017 roadmap now available

John Montgomery April 24, 2018 Apr 24, 2018 04/24/18

With the release of Visual Studio 2017, we moved to a release schedule that delivers new features and fixes to you faster. With this faster iteration, we heard you would like more visibility into what’s coming. So, we’ve now published the Visual Studio Roadmap. The roadmap lists some of the more notable upcoming features and improvements ...

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