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Support ends for older versions of Visual Studio

February 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022 02/10/22
Paul Chapman
We want to keep you secure when using Visual Studio. If you’re using an older version of Visual Studio, we have several reminders about upcoming events in the Visual Studio support lifecycle. Visual Studio 2012: support ends on January 10, 2023 for the IDE and its associated products, runtimes, and components. We recommend users upgrade...

Going all in on ‘Suggest a Feature’ in Visual Studio Developer Community

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19
Sean
In October 2018, we shared the plan to migrate from UserVoice forum to Developer Community. Since then, we have received and responded to over 2500 new feature suggestions on Developer Community with hundreds of those shipped in Visual Studio. Thank you for making the move and continuing to help us improve the functionality in Visual Studio!

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 3

October 4, 2018 Oct 4, 2018 10/4/18
Angel Zhou
Today, we are releasing the third preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. You can download it here and share your feedback with our engineering teams. This release includes ARM64 support in UWP apps as well as improvements to Xamarin and TypeScript. Continue reading below for an overview the fixes and new features. If you’d like to see ...

Getting started writing Visual Studio extensions

September 26, 2018 Sep 26, 2018 09/26/18
Mads Kristensen
I’m often asked how to best learn to build Visual Studio extensions, so here is what I wished someone told me before I got started. Don’t skip the introduction It’s easy to create a new extensibility project in Visual Studio, but unless you understand the basics of how the extensibility system works, then you are setting yourself up ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Preview 2

September 11, 2018 Sep 11, 2018 09/11/18
Angel Zhou
Today, we are releasing the second preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9, and it can be downloaded here. This latest preview contains new features and improvements to Universal Windows Platform development, C++ debugging, and export installation settings. Read more in the feature highlight summary below and check out the Visual Studio ...

Improving your productivity in the Visual Studio Editor

August 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2018 08/30/18
Allison Buchholtz-Au
Over the last few updates to Visual Studio 2017, we’ve been hard at work adding new features to boost your productivity while you’re writing code. Many of these are the result of your direct feedback coming from the UserVoice requests, Developer Community tickets, and direct feedback we’ve encountered while talking to developers like you...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.6

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