Tag : Visual Studio 2017

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.

Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

Mads Kristensen May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18

The Visual Studio team partners with extension authors to provide a productive development environment for users, who rely on a rich ecosystem of quality extensions. Today, we're introducing an update to extension auto load based on feedback from our community of developers, who need to quickly start Visual Studio and load their solution while...

Hyper-V Android emulator support

Visual Studio Blog May 8, 2018 May 8, 2018 05/8/18

Today, at Build 2018, we announced a preview of the Google Android emulator that’s compatible with Hyper-V, available on the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. This enables developers with Hyper-V enabled on their machines to use a hardware accelerated Android emulator, without needing to switch to Intel’s HAXM hypervisor. Amazing work was done...

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 ...

Introducing Visual Studio IntelliCode

Amanda Silver May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18

Learn how Visual Studio IntelliCode brings you next generation developer productivity via AI-assisted development, tailored to your code context. Try it out by downloading the experimental extension for Visual Studio 2017 that provides AI-powered IntelliSense.

Azure Storage Explorer Generally Available

Visual Studio Blog May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer. Storage Explorer provides easy management of Azure Storage accounts and contents, including Blobs, Files, Queues, and Table entities. For example, you can easily manage your Azure Virtual Machines disks as Blobs. Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Data Lake are ...

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 ...

Mobilizing Existing .NET Apps

Nish Anil April 16, 2018 Apr 16, 2018 04/16/18

Almost any .NET codebase, including Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, and Silverlight, has sharable code that can be ported to Mobile projects. In this blog post, You’ll learn how to port business logic from WPF and build a phone- and tablet-friendly mobile app for Android, iOS, and UWP. 

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