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May 2017 - Page 2 of 3 - Visual Studio news feed

Dear DocumentDB customers, welcome to Azure Cosmos DB!

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
Azure Cosmos DB, announced at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, is the first globally distributed, multi-model database service for building planet scale apps. You can easily build globally-distributed applications without the hassle of complex, multiple-datacenter configurations. Designed as a globally distributed database system, Cosmos ...

Announcing Windows Template Studio

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that target the Universal Windows Platform. In this ...

Continuous Delivery Tools adds support for Containers

May 19, 2017 May 19, 2017 05/19/17
Vahe Minasyan
Last week at //BUILD, the Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio shipped a new update. As always we are continuing to expand the extension’s set of features guided by your feedback. The enthusiasm and feedback has validated just how much opportunity there is to help you continuously deliver value to your users. Apart from bug fixes, our...

Unity game development with Visual Studio for Mac

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Vahe Minasyan
In 2014, we released the first version of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity (VSTU). Since then, we’ve successfully released multiple versions of the Tools for Unity on Windows, but never had the opportunity to bring our tools to Unity developers running macOS. Today at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced the general availability of ...

All Things Mobile at Microsoft Build

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Vahe Minasyan
We released the Xamarin SDKs as a part of Visual Studio a year ago, open sourcing them in the process. Since then, we’ve been busy improving the experience of mobile developers using Visual Studio, launching iOS simulator remoting, Workbooks, Inspector, the Xamarin.Forms Previewer, and support for iOS 10 and Android N...

A Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Vahe Minasyan
We’re delighted to announce that our rich Python toolchain is fully available in Visual Studio 2017. Installation of Python tools, interpreters, runtimes, and numerous other features are directly integrated into the Visual Studio 2017 installer. Just select the Python development or Data science and analytical applications workloads, both of...

Azure DevTest Labs updates at Build 2017

May 17, 2017 May 17, 2017 05/17/17
Vahe Minasyan
Azure DevTest Labs is an Azure service that enables IT admins to create cost-controlled, self-service labs for developers and testers to quickly create environments in Azure, while minimizing waste and optimizing cost. We announced the service general availability last May and have since continued to expand on how to solve our customers’ ...

Using C++ Modules in Visual Studio 2017

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Vahe Minasyan
The Visual C++ Team is elated to announce that with Visual Studio 2017, it has substantially improved the quality of the C++ Modules TS implementation in Visual Studio, in addition to introducing ability to consume the C++ Standard Library via module interfaces.  These module interfaces for the Standard Library, just like the compiler support...

Xamarin University Guest Lecture Recordings Now Free for Everyone!

May 10, 2017 May 10, 2017 05/10/17
Vahe Minasyan
Xamarin University has tons of great, expert-led live and on-demand content to help you jumpstart your mobile development skills, and today we’re making our Guest Lecture recordings completely free and accessible to all developers. Our monthly Guest Lecture series allows Xamarin University students to join live sessions with industry experts...