Visual Studio news feed

Visual Studio news feed

December 2018 - Page 3 of 4 - Visual Studio news feed

Azure.Source – Volume 61

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Shikha Kaul
On Tuesday, December 4th, Microsoft Connect(); 2018 provided a full day of developer-focused content—including updates on Azure and Visual Studio, keynotes, demos, and real-time coding with experts. Scott Guthrie’s keynote provided all the Azure and Visual Studio news on how you can stay productive and focus on what matters to you...

Take C# 8.0 for a spin

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Shikha Kaul
Yesterday we announced the first preview of both Visual Studio 2019 (Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019) and .NET Core 3.0 (Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 1 and Open Sourcing Windows Desktop Frameworks...

Linking your GitHub commits with Azure Boards

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Shikha Kaul
Today, we’re announcing a new integration between Azure Boards and GitHub. Development teams using GitHub can now take advantage of the rich project management capabilities offered by Azure Boards, including Kanban boards, backlogs, sprint planning tools, queries, and multiple work item types...

Building an Open Source .NET Foundation

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Shikha Kaul
It was April, 3rd 2014 when Anders Hejlsberg, father of the C# language, got on stage during the keynote at the Build conference in San Francisco and released the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) as open source and made the first pull request. That same keynote, Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Cloud & Enterprise group and ...

How to develop secure applications using Azure Cosmos DB

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Shikha Kaul
Before we begin to discuss how to develop secure applications using Azure Cosmos DB, we should also highlight some of the different layers of security that Azure Cosmos DB offers. The following image illustrates these various layers of security...

Visual Studio Live Share for real-time code reviews and interactive education

December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18
AlmaH821
Collaborating with your team using Visual Studio Live Share keeps getting easier! Since making Live Share available for the public use at BUILD last May, we’ve heard so much great feedback from our users, which has helped guide us in continuing to build a tool that truly enables developers to collaborate in all the ways they need from the ...

New Azure Pipelines announcements – VS Code extension, GitHub Releases, and more

December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18
AlmaH821
Since we launched Azure Pipelines in September, we’ve seen strong growth in adoption of our cloud hosted build and deployment service. We’re also learning from many of the open source projects on GitHub starting to take advantage of unlimited build minutes, and with up to 10 concurrent jobs across our hosted Linux, Widows, and Mac machines...

Using Visual Studio for Cross Platform C++ Development Targeting Windows and Linux

December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18
AlmaH821
A great strength of C++ is the ability to target multiple platforms without sacrificing performance. If you are using the same codebase for multiple targets, then CMake is the most common solution for building your software. You can use Visual Studio for your C++ cross platform development when using CMake without needing to create or generate...

The Latest in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac – Version 7.7

December 7, 2018 Dec 7, 2018 12/7/18
AlmaH821
Today, we are happy to share with you the next update to Visual Studio for Mac 2017. Version 7.7 incorporates much of your great feedback and is aimed at improving the core development experience for every project type from .NET Core to Xamarin and Unity. Below are just a few of the new features in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac 7.7 – for the ...