Announcing New Innovations to Help Every Developer Achieve More with...
More than ever, organizations are relying on developers to create breakthrough experiences. From start-ups to enterprises to government agencies, developers are creating new digital experiences that...
View ArticleA fresh update to Visual Studio 2017 and the next preview
In his Build 2017 keynote, Scott Guthrie made several announcements across partnerships, new Azure service capabilities, and the Visual Studio family. If you didn’t get a chance to watch the keynote,...
View ArticleVisual Studio for Mac: now generally available
Today at the Microsoft Build conference, we announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2017 for Mac. Visual Studio for Mac is a full-featured IDE built natively for the Mac, to help you...
View ArticleConfigure Microsoft Graph applications in the latest Visual Studio 2017 Preview
In Visual Studio, you can now easily configure your projects to access data across Office 365 and Azure Active Directory through the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft Graph serves as the single gateway for...
View ArticleNew benefits for Visual Studio subscribers and Dev Essentials members
Today at Microsoft Build 2017, we’re excited to announce a set of new benefits for Visual Studio Subscribers and Dev Essentials program members. If you’re a current Visual Studio subscriber or Dev...
View ArticleBuild Intelligent Apps Faster with Visual Studio and the Data Science Workload
I’m excited to announce that the Data Science and analytics applications workload is available today in Visual Studio 2017. It had made a brief appearance in preview releases of Visual Studio, but had...
View ArticleUnity game development with Visual Studio for Mac
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...
View ArticleMore Platforms, More Choices, More Power: Visual Studio Mobile Center at Build
Last fall we introduced Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview), a cloud service designed to help developers manage the lifecycle of their mobile apps and ship higher-quality apps faster than ever. Today...
View ArticleAll Things Mobile at Microsoft Build
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,...
View ArticleA Lap Around Python in Visual Studio 2017
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...
View ArticleContinuous Delivery Tools adds support for Containers
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...
View ArticleCommitting with Confidence: Getting Code Quality Information at Commit Time
Many developers tell us that they are under pressure to deliver software on an ever-faster cadence. This pressure for increased speed makes building your software at high quality from the start even...
View ArticleXamarin University’s free webinar series: Learn mobile development from experts
Starting June 1st, Xamarin University’s team of mobile experts – including special guest and author Charles Petzold – will host five new demo-packed webinars, designed to show you how to use Visual...
View ArticleWhat’s New and Improved with the SlowCheetah Extension
We are delighted to announce the latest release of the SlowCheetah extension for Visual Studio. For those who are new to SlowCheetah, it’s an extension that lets you easily add transforms that enable...
View ArticleTelerik UI for UWP – Free and Updated XAML Controls
In case you missed it, Progress Telerik UI for Universal Windows Platform by Progress was released as free and open-source earlier this year. With more than 22 XAML controls, this news has made it...
View ArticleTake your web app to Azure
You’ve built your web app. It’s running, and getting good traffic. Now you need to move on to solving the ‘good problems’ to have. You want to scale your app to support more users, but only at peak...
View ArticleHands on with Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio for Mac was released just under two months ago at Build 2017, and already we’ve seen tremendous growth in .NET developers working on the Mac. Visual Studio for Mac enables you to build...
View Article7 lesser known hacks for debugging in Visual Studio
The Visual Studio debugger is a magical beast that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is chock-full of tools that can make debugging easier… if you know...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview
We recently released the third Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 and we would love to get your feedback! We’ve been working hard to polish up some features, address some of the issues you’ve...
View Article7++ reasons to move your C++ code to Visual Studio 2017
Whether you are a full-time or occasional C++ developer, whether you are using an older Visual Studio version or are considering using Visual Studio for the first time, this blog post is for you. In...
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