Visual Studio news feed

Visual Studio news feed

New Year, New Dev – Windows IoT Core

To wrap up the “New Year, New Dev” blog series, we’ll go into using Windows 10 IoT Core and show how easy it is to start developing applications to deploy on IoT devices such as the Raspberry Pi 3. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first two posts in this series, you can find them here...

Python Tools “Interactive Windows” in Visual Studio 2017

Last week we announced that the Python development workload is available now in Visual Studio Preview, and briefly covered some of the new improvements in Visual Studio 2017. In this post, we are going to go into more depth on the improvements for the Python Interactive Window...

Visual Studio 2017 Poster

Since we launched Visual Studio 2017 last week, hundreds of thousands of customers like you have already installed and started using Visual Studio 2017, and we’re excited to see what you create. Visual Studio 2017 contains so many new features. From productivity enhancements to new C++ capabilities. Start using our ASP.NET Core Tooling along...

Apply Now for Microsoft’s Go Mobile Tech Workshops

We’re excited to announce that the Microsoft engineering team is offering a limited number of technical sessions to help your team build better mobile apps faster. The Go Mobile Tech Workshops are 3 hour sessions dedicated to your team, covering everything from your technology stack and architecture to the latest in Visual Studio 2017, Azure...

NuGet is now fully integrated into MSBuild

In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways - packages.config and project.json - each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017, we have revamped the NuGet package management experience by introducing PackageReference. PackageReference brings new and improved features such as deep MSBuild ...

The week in .NET – Happy birthday .NET with Mads Torgersen, Coypu

This week, we’ll have Sidarth Gupta and Hong-Seok Kim from Samsung on the show to talk about their Tizen OS and its support for .NET Core. The show won’t be live this week, because of the time difference with Korea, but you may still send us your questions on Gitter’s dotnet/home channel and on Twitter. Please use the #onnet tag...

Reattach To Process in Visual Studio 2017

Sometimes when developing an application you can’t simply F5 to start debugging the application. In these cases you can use Attach to Process to debug. Many times if you need to debug this way, you will often need to attach to the same application repeatedly. In Visual Studio 2017 we have introduced Reattach to Process (Shift+Alt+P) to ...

Desktop Bridge: Smooth User Transition and Data Migration (Windows Team Blog)

The Windows 10 Creators Update will help provide smooth user transition along with some best practices for app developers to follow. This feature is available on the current insider builds. Users will be encouraged to download the store version of their desktop apps. If the user already has the previous desktop version of the app, the ...