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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
A few days ago we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and an update to Visual Studio for Mac, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. You can either download the Preview, or, if you already have it installed, click on the notification you’ll receive in the product informing...

Snapshot Debugging with Visual Studio 2017: Now Ready for Production

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
If an issue happens in production, you may find yourself digging through logs or attempting to repro the issue in a local environment. Often, the logs may be insufficient, or a local repro may be hard if not impossible to setup. The Snapshot Debugger enables a safe, non-invasive way for you to use the Visual Studio debugger you know and love ...

Xamarin Blog: See What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
Today, we’re releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 into stable. This release includes many improvements for mobile developers, including enhancements to XAML editing, the Xamarin Live Player, File -> New Project, and our Mac pairing mechanism. We’ve also made our Remoted iOS Simulator feature available in all editions of Visual ...

DevOps and VSTS – Videos from Connect(); 2017

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
We’ve just wrapped up the Microsoft Connect(); conference that took place last week in New York and online, with sessions streamed live from New York and Seattle. The Connect(); conference highlights developer tools like Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and the rest of the Visual Studio family of products. It’s an event full of news and ...

Migrating your existing .NET application to the cloud? Tell us about it!

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
Hi everyone! The .NET team is conducting a survey to learn more about your approach for moving existing .NET applications to the cloud. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. The survey will also allow you to provide your contact details which will allow a .NET team member to reach out to you and help you explore the ...

Windows Template Studio 1.5 released

December 8, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 12/8/17
App Center Team
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.5. In this release, we finalized our work for localization, added in some new features, and started work on a bunch of new features and pages...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17
App Center Team
Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. I’ll share some details in this post, but as always, there’s a lot more information in the release notes. If you’d like to jump right in, download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and download Visual Studio for Mac...

MSVC conformance improvements in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17
App Center Team
The MSVC toolset included in Visual Studio version 15.5 preview 4 includes many C++ conformance improvements. Throughout the VS2015 and VS2017 releases we’ve focused on conformance with C++ standards, including C++17 features. With VS2017 version 15.5, MSVC has implemented about 75% of C++17 core language and library features. These features...

Vcpkg: a tool to acquire and build C++ open source libraries on Windows

December 6, 2017 Dec 6, 2017 12/6/17
App Center Team
We are delighted to announce the availability of Vcpkg on GitHub https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg . Vcpkg simplifies acquiring and building open source libraries on Windows. Acquiring native libraries on Windows is a critical part of the application development process; in our surveys, you told us that 80% of your C++ projects depend on two...