Continuous Delivery Tools Adds GitHub Support and My Build Notifications
The Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio shipped last month as a Microsoft DevLabs extension to experiment with some of the latest ideas for setting up and working with a DevOps pipeline. As...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements
Performance was a big focus area for Visual Studio 2017, with improvements in many areas, including: Faster installation Faster first launch after installing and faster subsequent startups. Faster...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Update
We’ve released an update to Visual Studio 2017 and you can download it and start using it today. In this update, which will show up in Help/About as 15.1 (26403.0), we’ve added support for the Windows...
View ArticleEnd of Support for Visual Studio 2008 – in One Year
In line with our ten-year support policy, Visual Studio 2008, its associated products, runtimes, and components will cease to be supported from April 10, 2018. Though your Visual Studio 2008...
View ArticleVisual Studio for Mac to the Cloud and Beyond
In November, we announced Visual Studio for Mac, a fully featured IDE that we hope will help every Mac developer create mobile and cloud applications. We started with a solid foundation for mobile...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Preview 15.2
Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 Preview 15.2. For information on what this preview contains, please refer to the Visual Studio 2017 Preview release notes. If you haven’t heard about our new...
View ArticleNew Offline Books for Visual Studio 2017 Available for Download
Today we are happy to announce that new offline books for Visual Studio 2017 are now available for download. Now you can easily download content published on MSDN and Docs for consumption on-the-go,...
View ArticleAutomatically build and deploy ASP.NET Core projects to Azure App Services
Over the last few updates we’ve been working on evening out our support for popular scenarios. Earlier this month we added support for setting up an automated DevOps pipeline in VSTS that pulls source...
View ArticleAnnouncing 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...
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