Catch up with Visual Studio Tools for Unity on Mac
February 17, 2020Feb 17, 202002/17/20Whats new in Visual Studio Tools for Unity since we launched Visual Studio for Mac.
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‘Tis the Season for the Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Release
December 3, 2019Dec 3, 201912/3/19Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 is available today. Highlights of the release include: better GitHub integration, Vertical Tabs, Container Tools, Xamarin Hot Reload, C++ Tooling, .NET Productivity, Pinnable Property Tabs, and much more.
Welcome to the new home of our developer tools blogs!
February 13, 2019Feb 13, 201902/13/19With the new look and URL for Microsoft’s developer tools and services blogs where you can explore the latest news and updates for our products, discover a new project to try out, and share your favorite content with your friends.
Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 now available
November 19, 2018Nov 19, 201811/19/18Visual Studio version 15.9 is now out. This release comes with improvements for C++ debugging, .NET tooling, UWP performance, and more. Click to learn more!
How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers
July 31, 2018Jul 31, 201807/31/18Visual 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.
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC
March 3, 2016Mar 3, 201603/3/16Today we released the next set of reliability and performance improvements in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, which also addresses issues that we hear from your continued feedback.
Building on what we announced with the CTP release, here’s what you’ll find in Update 2 RC:
Issues we’ve fixed:
Errors in the NuGet Package Manager Console that failed with “A task was canceled.”
Crashes due to null and/or invalid pointer reads.
Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP
February 10, 2016Feb 10, 201602/10/16Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP. Our focus for this release has been stability and performance, along with responding to feedback you’ve given us on Visual Studio 2015 RTM and Update 1.
Here are the biggest things you’ll find in this update:
Fixes for quite a number of bugs:
Crashes when editing C# or Visual Basic files while editing
Crashes when updating error list entries for C# and Visual Basic projects while editing
Out of memory exceptions when C# and Visual Basic projects are kept open for long sessions
Delays when opening C++ projects
Over 300 C++ compiler bugs (some address code-generation issues and required breaking changes;
Visual Studio Update 1 RC
October 29, 2015Oct 29, 201510/29/15Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, which builds on the Update 1 CTP we released three weeks ago. In addition to the features introduced in the CTP as described here, the Release Candidate includes the following:
Go To Implementation.
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released
March 9, 2015Mar 9, 201503/9/15Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 released today, primarily focuses on bug fixes. The release notes and knowledge base article have the complete list of features and fixes.
As always, please give us your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on our UserVoice site,
Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 Ready to Download
September 3, 2014Sep 3, 201409/3/14The first CTP for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 is ready to download. Update 4 CTP 1 includes feature enhancements and bug fixes for Team Foundation Server and Visual C++. Checkout this detailed blog post for more info on Team Foundation Server enhancements.
