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How do industry leaders set their mobile apps apart?

February 16, 2017 Feb 16, 2017 02/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
The past few years, innovation and increasingly savvy users have dramatically raised the bar for app quality. Industry leaders have taken notice, and they’re capitalizing on three core trends to stay ahead of their users—and their competition: (1) transitioning from basic apps to amazing mobile experiences; (2) evolving from simple, data-...

Join Us: Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary

February 9, 2017 Feb 9, 2017 02/9/17
Julia Liuson
Twenty-five years ago, I started my first day at Microsoft as a developer on the Access team, and then as a developer on a newly created product – Visual InterDev. I remember how the emphasis was on the Visual part of our various product offerings, we have come a long way to the Visual Studio we have now. Today, I’m proud and humbled that Visual Studio is turning twenty – we’re celebrating two decades of Visual Studio! As we hit this great milestone, I’m also excited to announce that Visual Studio 2017 will be released on March 7.

Connect(“demos”); // 2016: BikeSharing360 on GitHub

December 14, 2016 Dec 14, 2016 12/14/16
Visual Studio Blog
Microsoft loves developers and is constantly investing in enabling the future of development with cloud-first, mobile-first solutions that serve any developer, any application, and any platform. During our Connect(); event this year we presented 15 demos in Scott Guthrie’s and Scott Hanselman’s keynotes. If you missed the keynotes, you ...

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today during the Connect(); 2016 event we announced the availability of the release candidate of the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Thank you to those who tried out the pre-builds and previews and provided feedback. Your feedback always plays an important role in the successful release of Visual Studio. ...

Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
At this morning’s Connect(); 2016 keynote, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family.Visual Studio for Mac is a developer environment optimized for building mobile and cloud apps with Xamarin and .NET. It is a one-stop shop for .NET development on the Mac, including ...

Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
John Montgomery
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains we’ve seen. I’m also going to point out some of the productivity enhancements we’ve made. So kick off the installer here and ...

Join us this November for Connect(); 2016

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to save the date for what promises to be our best Connect(); yet. At Connect(); 2016, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Principal Program...

Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3

July 14, 2016 Jul 14, 2016 07/14/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today we’re releasing Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.3. The Visual Studio extension natively supported by Unity on Windows makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE to develop cross-platform games with Unity. Main changes The highlights of VSTU 2.3 include: How to Update The ...

Visual Studio “15” Preview 3

July 7, 2016 Jul 7, 2016 07/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today I am happy to share Visual Studio “15” Preview 3 (which is different from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3). This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so my recommendation is to not install it on your production environments. That said, it should install right on top of any previous Visual Studio “15” Previews and side by side with ...