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Supporting JUnit 5 in Visual Studio Code

March 19, 2018 Mar 19, 2018 03/19/18
Xiaokai He
After supporting the widely adopted JUnit 4 with the Java Test Runner extension for Visual Studio Code, we’ve received suggestions to add additional test frameworks, like JUnit 5 and TestNG. We’ve added initial support for JUnit 5, including running, debugging test cases as well as test report. Please give us a try and let us know your ...

Visual Studio at GDC 2018

March 14, 2018 Mar 14, 2018 03/14/18
Visual Studio Blog
Next week, the world’s largest professional game industry event kicks off in San Francisco: Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018. We’re incredibly excited to engage with all developers at the event looking to join the growing community of more than half a million monthly active developers building great games with Visual Studio today. ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1

March 13, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 03/13/18
Christine Ruana
The top highlights of this Preview include productivity enhancements, better diagnostics, additional C++ development improvements, better management of Android and iOS environments, updated tooling for Universal Windows Platform and .NET Core projects, and an improved update experience.  Please note that this is the first set of version 15.7 features; more goodness awaits in the next Preview.

Join me on March 2, 2018 for a Developer Tools AMA

February 26, 2018 Feb 26, 2018 02/26/18
Visual Studio Blog
A lot has happened since I last hosted a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) nearly two years ago. Our team launched Visual Studio for Mac in late 2016 and released it the following May. Shortly thereafter, we introduced live coding of mobile apps with .NET code with our Live Player. We made it easy to embed .NET into native applications with...

Your guide to Azure services for apps built with Xamarin

February 21, 2018 Feb 21, 2018 02/21/18
Visual Studio Blog
When talking about app development today, the cloud is almost always part of the conversation. While many developers have an idea of the benefits that cloud can offer them – scalability, ready-to-use functionality, and security, to name a few – it’s sometimes hard to figure out where to start for the specific scenario you have in mind. ...

Fine-tuning the notifications experience inside the Visual Studio IDE

February 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018 02/14/18
Visual Studio Blog
Whether your team is small or large, staying on top of essential information in a timely and efficient manner is key in any successful project. In previous blog posts, we introduced new notification experiences that help you stay updated about team activities such as build failures and work item assignments without having to switch context ...

Accessing Visual Studio Previews in Azure

February 13, 2018 Feb 13, 2018 02/13/18
Visual Studio Blog
In our most recent post, the Visual Studio team announced the availability of Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4.  Today, I’m excited to announce you can now access the latest Visual Studio previews in the Azure Marketplace.  Just boot a virtual machine and off you go with the very latest features (standard VM charges will still ...

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.6 Preview 4

February 8, 2018 Feb 8, 2018 02/8/18
Christine Ruana
Today, we are excited to share the final Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 feature preview, which builds upon earlier previews of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6. This preview contains new features, bug fixes, and other enhancements that address your feedback. The top highlights of this Preview are described in this blog post: an enhanced acquisition experience for updates, performance improvements, information about Visual Studio Live Share, better Build and Test Explorer tools, and various C++ improvements.