Support for Windows 10 Creators Update SDK and Xamarin Workbooks, updates to the Redgate Data Tools, and a number of performance enhancements are good reasons for developers to take heed with this VS 2017 update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2017
Syncfusion Essential Studio 2017 adds bevy of new controls for charts, text, and provides more responsive menus. Bonus: It's all now .NET Standard-compliant.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2017
Like clockwork, the Visual Studio team has Visual Studio Team Services rolling out with Sprint 115, with improvements in pull requests and the package management UI, and lots of progress in automation via DevOps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2017
Azure Service Fabric team hopes to spur improvements to Service Fabric .NET SDK through the open source community. ASF and the SDK have also recently been updated.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/27/2017
Mobilize.net now has support for Visual Studio 2017 for users of its VB-to-.NET code migration tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2017
Visual Studio Code's February Build is now available, and it sports quite a few updates having to do with the workbench and debugging features, and includes a preview of a new code view.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2017
Team Foundation Server 2017 is out, but that doesn't mean there isn't important work to be done with TFS 2015. The VS team has released a preview of a TFS 2015 update that rolls up about 25 fixes for mostly customer-reported issues.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2017
Microsoft knows that, out there in the real world, developers come at DevOps using a wide range of languages and platforms, some of which are not of the developer's choosing. That was the core message of Microsoft DevOps expert Donovan Brown's demo at VSLive! in Las Vegas this week.
.NET developers now have another option for the streamlined creation of cloud apps, now that Google App Engine has announced support for the Microsoft developer stack.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2017
Version 2.0 of the business process development tool comes in builds for .NET Core and Java, and sports streamlined UI improvements and a number of new methods.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2017
Visual Studio Team Services team are in the midst of rolling out yet another sprint, this one with additional Delivery plans features, a more optimized mobile work item experience, and some other Team features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2017
No secrets here, as features and updates of the suite have been portioned out in public testing in the months and weeks leading up to the launch. So much of what's new in this morning's announcements has to do with the current state of several VS iterations, including the Mac and Mobile Center previews, as well as some new benefits.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/07/2017
Now that Azure Stack Technical Preview 3 is out, Visual Studio developers building apps in the Azure cloud platform can take it for a spin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2017
New release fixes a number of issues, including more polished tooling fixes while working in the editor, and the addition of a new object type introduced in the second iteration of the ECMAscript offshoot.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2017
Another month, another VSTS sprint. This one features a number of team-related pull request improvements and a more efficient package management UI.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/22/2017
Version 1.9 of the online code editor sports a new look and some new tools to get developers up to speed quickly, including an Interactive Playground to test-drive some of the news features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/15/2017
With a pack of updates that amount to minor fixes following the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC3 a week ago, the Visual Studio team is now set to launch a feature-complete version within a month's time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2017
The UI tool builder is contributing a couple dozen tools in its UI for UWP suite to the open source community.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2017
Microsoft offers a laundry list of developer-oriented features to get devs up to speed with the newest, feature-complete Windows 10 Creators Update slated for early 2017 release.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/08/2017
Tizen is an open source app platform targeting mainly Samsung devices, from televisions, to phones, to wearables. Yep, there's a Visual Studio Tool for that, and it's on its second preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/03/2017