Visual Studio news feed

Announcing ML.NET 1.4 general availability (Machine Learning for .NET)

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19

Shikha Kaul

Coinciding with the Microsoft Ignite 2019 conference, we are thrilled to announce the GA release of ML.NET 1.4 and updates to Model Builder in Visual Studio, with exciting new machine learning features that will allow you to innovate your .NET applications...

Introducing C++ Build Insights

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19

Shikha Kaul

C++ builds should always be faster. In Visual Studio 2019 16.2, we’ve shown our commitment to this ideal by speeding up the linker significantly. Today, we are thrilled to announce a new collection of tools that will give you the power to make improvements of your own...

Announcing TypeScript 3.7

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19

Shikha Kaul

We’re thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 3.7, a release packed with awesome new language, compiler, and tooling features...

Improved Continuous Delivery capabilities and caching for Azure Pipelines

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19

Shikha Kaul

We are thrilled to announce a new set of updates for Azure Pipelines, the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery platform part of Azure DevOps. Our team has been hard at work for the past few months to deliver new features, including some that were much-requested by our users...

Re-imagining collaboration for Visual Studio with Live Share app casting and contacts

November 12, 2019 Nov 12, 2019 11/12/19

Shikha Kaul

The power of Visual Studio for desktop and mobile development is unmatched in the industry, and we wanted to ensure that the best in class also had the best collaboration story. Live Share is reimagining this collaboration story by reducing the barriers to collaboration, increasing the fidelity of the collaboration experience while building ...

Coming to DirectX 12— Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19

Shikha Kaul

Suppose you are shading a complicated 3D scene. The camera moves swiftly throughout the scene, causing some objects to be moved into different levels of detail. Since you need to aggressively optimize for memory, you bind resources to cope with the demand for different LODs. Perhaps you use a texture streaming system; perhaps it uses tiled ...

Developer platform updates at Microsoft Ignite 2019

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19

Shikha Kaul

Earlier this year, we announced some awesome advancements in how developers can better connect with their customers and build people-centric experiences using the Microsoft 365 platform. Today, we’re continuing that story and sharing how you can use these enhancements to build more innovative applications and be more productive. We are ...

An Update on C++/CLI and .NET Core

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19

Shikha Kaul

The first public release of our C++/CLI support for .NET Core 3.1 is now available for public preview! It is included in Visual Studio 2019 update 16.4 Preview 2. We would love it if you could try it out and send us any feedback you have. For more info about what this is and the roadmap going forward, check out my last post on the future of C...

.NET Core 3 for Windows Desktop

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19

Shikha Kaul

In September, we released .NET Core support for building Windows desktop applications, including WPF and Windows Forms. Since then, we have been delighted to see so many developers share their stories of migrating desktop applications (and controls libraries) to .NET Core. We constantly hear stories of .NET Windows desktop developers powering ...

Introducing Orleans 3.0

November 7, 2019 Nov 7, 2019 11/7/19

Shikha Kaul

We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0. These changes were driven by the experience of many people running Orleans-based applications in production in a wide range of scenarios and environments, and by the ingenuity and passion of ...