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End of Support for Visual Studio 2008 – in One Year

April 10, 2017 Apr 10, 2017 04/10/17
Visual Studio Blog
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 applications will continue to work, we encourage you to port, migrate, and upgrade your Visual Studio projects over the next year, to ensure you continue ...

Visual Studio 2017 Update

April 5, 2017 Apr 5, 2017 04/5/17
John Montgomery
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 10 Creators Update SDK, added support in Xamarin Workbooks for C# 7, and updated the Redgate Data Tools. There is also a set of performance improvements you can read about in Bertan’s post, Visual Studio 2017 Performance Improvements.

Become a Mobile Developer with Visual Studio 2017 and Xamarin University

March 30, 2017 Mar 30, 2017 03/30/17
Visual Studio Blog
Millions of developers around the world use the power of C# and .NET to deliver amazing apps. Whether you’re building for desktop with Windows Forms or UWP, or for the web with ASP.NET WebForms, or MVC, .NET’s flexible tools and frameworks help you ship software that solves almost any problem. In the mobile world, Visual Studio Tools for ...

Apply Now for Microsoft’s Go Mobile Tech Workshops

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Visual Studio Blog
This is your opportunity to bring Microsoft engineering experts to discuss app development and architecture best practices with your team 1:1  We’re excited to announce that the Microsoft engineering team is offering a limited number of technical sessions to help your team build better mobile apps faster. The Go Mobile Tech ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.1 Preview and Windows 10 Creators Update SDK

March 16, 2017 Mar 16, 2017 03/16/17
Visual Studio Blog
It’s only been a week since we released Visual Studio 2017 and we’re already working on an update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.1 Preview. This Update preview includes two main changes: improvements to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) tools to support the Creators Update SDK and the addition of the Python tools. For full details of ...

Visual Studio 2017 Poster

March 13, 2017 Mar 13, 2017 03/13/17
Visual Studio Blog
Since we launched Visual Studio 2017 last week, hundreds of thousands of customers like you have already installed and started using Visual Studio 2017, and we’re excited to see what you create. Visual Studio 2017 contains so many new features. From productivity enhancements to new C++ capabilities. Start using our ASP.NET Core Tooling along...

Iterations on infinity

March 8, 2017 Mar 8, 2017 03/8/17
Visual Studio Blog
(image) Developers like you live with the Visual Studio icons every day: clicking on them multiple times, staring at them side by side on the taskbar, and seeing them attached to project files. So when we update them, it's a big deal. After all, icons matter. For pictures that are at most just under a centimeter wide on a normal display (or ...