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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 ...

Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
Today during the Visual Studio launch event, we announced that we’ve partnered with Redgate to include Redgate Data Tools in Visual Studio 2017. Redgate Data Tools includes three components that extend DevOps practices to SQL Server and Azure SQL databases and increase your productivity while doing database development. Here’s a brief ...

Mobile Center: Xamarin support, detailed app analytics, and more

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
Since our announcement of the Visual Studio Mobile Center Preview at Connect();,  we’ve had an amazing response from the developer community. I’d like to thank the thousands of you who’ve created accounts, kicked the tires of our lifecycle services, and provided feedback to help us create the simplest, most effective way to build, test...

Extend your App Success with Visual Studio 2017 Launch Partners

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Visual Studio Blog
Since the release of Visual Studio 2015, the ecosystem of technologies around Visual Studio has diversified and grown significantly.  That is why the Visual Studio Partner Program now represents over 6,500 extensions and integrations across Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Team Services, and Xamarin.  This vibrant community ...

Announcing Visual Studio 2017 General Availability… and more

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Julia Liuson
Since we released the Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate, we’ve had nearly 700,000 downloads! We’ve been busy taking customer feedback and enhancing the user experience to deliver the most powerful and productive version of Visual Studio yet. We’ve also been fine-tuning the Visual Studio family of tools. Now, the day that we have been working toward is here.

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017

March 6, 2017 Mar 6, 2017 03/6/17
Visual Studio Blog
As we are getting set up to launch Visual Studio 2017 tomorrow, we wanted to let you know that we have released the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017. So, you’ll be able to hit the ground running with all your favorite productivity features. The Productivity Power Tools is a collection of extensions that improve the developer ...