On the mobile front, Xamarin integration has been enhanced, with a previewer for Xamarin Forms and better IntelliSense for Xamarin Forms XAML. AdvertisementĬ++ developers can enjoy better standards compliance, including some C++17 features, and support for CMake build scripts. Those developers also now have a 'run to click' feature that looks roughly equivalent to the C++ 'run to cursor' feature: It runs the program up to the chosen line and then pauses in the debugger, without needing to set any manual breakpoints. Visual Studio 2017 will re-run the tests in the background so that the editor window shows a continuous view of whether your code passes its tests or not. As you edit the code, the live unit test shows which lines of code are covered by unit tests and whether those tests are passing or failing. The editing experience has been improved, with better, filterable IntelliSense, and a reworked 'go to any symbol/file/type' feature.Ĭ# and VB.NET developers are getting updated versions of their respective languages along with a compelling 'live unit test' feature. This is great when working on codebases that aren't primarily developed in Visual Studio. This allows for editing and building of ad hoc directories full of code.

Its startup time should also be less painful than in 2015. As well as opening faster, projects are also not quite as necessary as they were before Visual Studio 2017 can sort of open a folder as if it were a project. Visual Studio itself is also faster, especially when loading large C++ projects. The quickest installation should take no more than about three minutes. The first is apparent as soon as you install Visual Studio 2017: the installer is faster and should make installing only the features you need easier. Microsoft had four main areas of improvement in Visual Studio 2017: 'productivity and performance,' mobile, cloud, and devops. Today, Microsoft is releasing the 11th version of Visual Studio: Visual Studio 2017, previously codenamed Visual Studio '15,' because its version stamp is 15.0. NET namesake, J++ killed off in the courts, and C# and F# children of the 21st century-and the integration has improved-it's actually one development environment instead of a different one for each language.

Since then, the languages have changed-only C++ remains, with Visual Basic replaced by its. Just over 20 years have passed since Microsoft first shipped Visual Studio, which bundled development environments for C++, Visual Basic, and its Java dialect J++.

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