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

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Have you tried Visual Studio 2017 at home and want to use it at work? Here are eight reasons to upgrade today that you can share with your management: Faster Than Ever Efficient Code Navigation Refactorings and Quick Actions Additions to Core Editor Functionality Debugging Improvements New and Refreshed Unit Testing Experience Code Style Configuration… Read more

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

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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-assisted capabilities to improve… Read more

Visual Studio IntelliCode now infers coding conventions for consistent code

by Visual Studio Blog // 28 Comments

Following the initial announcement of Visual Studio IntelliCode at Build 2018, we’re excited to report that the Visual Studio IntelliCode Extension has been updated to enable coding convention inference for C#, to help you and your team achieve more readable and consistent code. If you’re new to the Intellicode extension, it already provides AI-assisted IntelliSense… Read more

Azure Service Fabric Mesh tools now available for Visual Studio 2017

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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 able to use Service Fabric… Read more

Announcing the public preview of Azure Dev Spaces

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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 platforms… Read more

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 3

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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 – Visual Studio is more responsive and usable, and projects load faster. Improved tooling to profile and understand your applications performance. Updated JavaScript and TypeScript tooling, including improved Vue.js and ESLint… Read more

Getting Started with Microsoft’s Python Developer Tools

by Visual Studio Blog // 7 Comments

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… Read more

Preview of Visual Studio Kubernetes Tools

by Visual Studio Blog // 11 Comments

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 own Azure Kubernetes Service… Read more

What’s Next for Visual Studio

by Visual Studio Blog // 99 Comments

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… Read more

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 Preview 2

by Visual Studio Blog // 23 Comments

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, and 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… Read more