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November 2017 - Visual Studio news feed

C++ Core Check improvements in Visual Studio 2017 15.5

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17
App Center Team
In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Preview 4 we have refreshed our C++ Core Guidelines Check extension for native code static analysis tools. Most of the work since 15.3 has been focused on new rules that will help developers starting new projects write safer C++ and those with legacy projects move toward safer, modern C++. For those who are ...

Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17
App Center Team
On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual Studio needs to process. Over the last six months, we looked at ways to make solution load much faster, even for large solutions. We are happy to ...

Overview of Visual Studio 2017 and Updates for .NET Developers

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17
App Center Team
The first thing you’ll notice with Visual Studio 2017 is the new install experience which lets you pick and choose which development tools you want installed. To help you get started working on your projects quickly, Visual Studio 2017 Preview version 15.5 has parallelized initialization to make your solutions load fast and get you to ...

SQL Server 2017: A proven leader in database performance

November 30, 2017 Nov 30, 2017 11/30/17
App Center Team
SQL Server continues to be a proven leader in database performance for both analytic and OLTP workloads. SQL Server 2017 is fast, built-in with capabilities and features such as Columnstore indexes to accelerate analytic performance and Automatic Tuning and Adaptive Query Processing to keep your database application at peak speed...

Announcing F# support for .NET Core and .NET Standard projects in Visual Studio

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
We’re pleased to announce that Visual Studio 2017 15.5 Preview 4 now supports F# projects targeting .NET Core, .NET Standard, and .NET Framework through the .NET Core SDK. Some of you have noticed various levels of this support in the first, second, and third previews. We still had a few work items left to complete when those were released, ...

GVFS Updates: More Performance, More Availability

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
It’s been a few months since we last talked about GVFS, the technology that allows Git to support Enterprise-scale Git repositories. And it’s been a busy few months. Not only have we been working on a ton of performance improvements, we’ve also been getting it ready for a wider audience so that we can bring modern version control and ...

Introducing Tensor for multi-dimensional Machine Learning and AI data

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
Tensor is an exchange type for homogenous multi-dimensional data for 1 to N dimensions. The motivation behind introducing Tensor is to make it easy for Machine Learning library vendors like CNTK, Tensorflow, Caffe, Scikit-Learn to port their libraries over to .NET with minimal dependencies in place...

Pipeline as code (YAML) preview (Visual Studio Team Services)

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
The ability to store your CI build in source control has been a long running request for VSTS and TFS garnering more than 650 votes on user voice. Having your CI defined alongside your application source gives you the ability to evolve your CI as your code evolves and to apply source centric workflows like pull requests and code reviews to ...

Announcing SQL Operations Studio for preview

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
We are excited to announce that SQL Operations Studio is now available in preview. SQL Operations Studio is a free, light-weight tool for modern database development and operations for SQL Server on Windows, Linux and Docker, Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse on Windows, Mac or Linux machines...

Release Gates: Releases with continuous monitoring built in

November 29, 2017 Nov 29, 2017 11/29/17
App Center Team
Continuous monitoring is an integral part of safe deployments and DevOps pipelines. Ensuring the app in a release is healthy after deployment is as critical as the success of the deployment process. Enterprises adopt various tools for automatic detection of app health in production, and for keeping track of customer reported incidents...