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How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers

July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Kasey Uhlenhuth

Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.

Visual Studio IntelliCode expands AI-assisted coding to Python in Visual Studio Code

July 24, 2018 Jul 24, 2018 07/24/18

Dan Taylor

Today at the EuroPython conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, we are introducing support for Python in the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code, as well as new improvements in editing for Python developers in Visual Studio Code. AI-assisted IntelliSense for Python At Microsoft Build 2018, we first announced IntelliCode, a set of AI-...

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code

July 17, 2018 Jul 17, 2018 07/17/18

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Learn how to use the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code.

Azure Service Fabric Mesh tools now available for Visual Studio 2017

July 16, 2018 Jul 16, 2018 07/16/18

Cristy Gonzalez

Azure Service Fabric is a market-tested distributed systems platform for running scalable and reliable applications on microservices and containers. Up until now, Service Fabric required you to create and manage the clusters and their nodes using virtual machine scale sets. With today’s announcement of Azure Service Fabric Mesh, you’ll be ...

Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces

July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18

Balan Subramanian

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces, a cloud-native development experience for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), where you can work on your applications while always staying connected with the cloud and your team. Over the last year, we have spoken to many developers working in different languages and ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3

June 26, 2018 Jun 26, 2018 06/26/18

Christine Ruana

We're happy to share the highlights of the latest Visual Studio 2017 preview, which is now available for download, including - Productivity and Performance improvements, updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, right-click context menu productivity improvements, more C++ productivity improvements in IntelliSense, Code Analysis, and Just My Code debugging, Azure Development improvements, more Library Manager features, and Mobile Development improvements such as faster Android incremental builds and inclusion of Xamarin.Essentials to facilitate building native apps.

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

Dan Taylor

Microsoft's teams have been working over the last few years to bring Python developer tools to the Azure cloud and our most popular developer tools: Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Python is one of the fastest growing languages, with both beginner and expert developers taking to it. What makes it attractive is its easy-to-learn semantics...

Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools

June 8, 2018 Jun 8, 2018 06/8/18

Lisa Guthrie

Kubernetes is an open source system that is quickly emerging as the preferred container orchestration system for applications of all shapes and sizes, simplifying the deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers. It runs in a variety of environments, including on premises as well as in cloud providers, such as Microsoft’s ...

What’s Next for Visual Studio

June 6, 2018 Jun 6, 2018 06/6/18

John Montgomery

Since we launched Visual Studio 2017 in March of that year, it has become our most popular Visual Studio release ever. Your feedback has helped our team publish seven updates since our initial GA, which have improved solution load performance, build performance, and unit test discovery performance. We’ve also made Visual Studio 2017 our most...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 2

May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018 05/31/18

Christine Ruana

We're happy to share the highlights of the latest Visual Studio 2017 preview, which is now available for download, including - Emulator and Designer improvements when developing mobile Android apps, Xamarin.Android support of Android P Developer Preview 1, C++ development improvements, ability to fine-tune solution load configuration settings to maximize performance, significant new functionality in the CPU Usage tool to help you profile your applications’ performance, improvements to make it easier to build and debug extensions.