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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.

New Updates for Azure Development in Visual Studio

May 30, 2018 May 30, 2018 05/30/18
Cristy Gonzalez
With Microsoft Build 2018 in the books, we just released a series of updates to Visual Studio for Azure Development. This improves productivity and security for developers building and diagnosing web applications, containers and microservices. To help you make the most of these new advancements for developing in the Azure cloud, we've compiled...

Snapshots on Exceptions while debugging with IntelliTrace

May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 05/24/18
Deborah Chen
Have you ever encountered an exception in your application while debugging, and wanted to know exactly what the state of the app was at that point in time? With a new feature in IntelliTrace, you can! Learn how to use IntelliTrace's new snapshots on exceptions feature, which enables you to go back to a previous exception event and see the state of the application at the time the exception was thrown.

Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18
Mads Kristensen
The Visual Studio team partners with extension authors to provide a productive development environment for users, who rely on a rich ecosystem of quality extensions. Today, we're introducing an update to extension auto load based on feedback from our community of developers, who need to quickly start Visual Studio and load their solution while...

Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together

May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18
Jb Evain
The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It's the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can read the full blog post by Unity for all the details on what’s new in the 2018.1 release. First and foremost, we're thrilled Unity chose ...

Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5 and beyond

May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 05/7/18
Visual Studio Blog
Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we're excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. We have also continued to bring more Visual Studio 2017 ...