Microsoft wants users of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio 2019 to know that they should prepare their migration to Visual Studio 2022


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Microsoft wants users of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio 2019 to know that they should prepare their migration to Visual Studio 2022
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Microsoft announced this week that it has released the first preview of Visual Studio 2022, the first 64-bit version of its developer environment.
BY Paul Thurrott with 19 Comments
Microsoft said today that it will release the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 this summer ahead of an expected late 2021 release.
BY Paul Thurrott with 12 Comments
Heading into the late 1990s, Microsoft sought to consolidate its developer languages and tools into a single, cohesive environment.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 6 Comments
Microsoft's latest and greatest version of Visual Studio is now available to everyone. It brings a ton of new improvements to the IDE.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 4 Comments
Visual Studio Code now works better on macOS.
BY Paul Thurrott with 11 Comments
The next major version of Microsoft's flagship software development suite will be named Visual Studio 2019.
BY Paul Thurrott with 35 Comments
According to a report, Microsoft recently held talks to acquire GitHub, which was most recently valued at about $2 billion.
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Microsoft brings Fluent Design to a broader range of Windows app developers, new AI-powered code suggestions to Visual Studio, and more.
BY Paul Thurrott with 29 Comments
I spend a lot of time exploring programming languages. This year, I'm focusing on JavaScript, the language used to create web apps.
BY Paul Thurrott with 28 Comments
Understanding developer technologies is key to a deeper understanding of personal computing platforms. So how does Google Flutter change things?
BY Mehedi Hassan with 9 Comments
Visual Studio is getting real-time collaboration in 2018, allowing users to collaborate on code in real-time on Visual Studio.
BY Mehedi Hassan with 5 Comments
Microsoft continues its push with the release of new tools that help developers build, train, and deploy deep learning models on Visual Studio with the help of Azure.
BY Paul Thurrott with 13 Comments
Microsoft has released .NET Core 2.0, a major new version of its cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform.
BY Paul Thurrott with 17 Comments
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Template Studio 1.2, the latest version of its UWP builder Visual Studio extension.
BY Paul Thurrott with 6 Comments
Microsoft announced today that it is retiring Windows App Studio, its web-based app development tool.
BY Paul Thurrott with 10 Comments
Today at Build 2017, Microsoft announced a preview version of Xamarin Live Player, which is in some ways the final piece of the mobile development puzzle.
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While the general availability of Visual Studio for Mac generated a lot of news today, Microsoft also shipped two other important Visual Studio versions.
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During the opening day of Build 2017, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio 2017 for Mac is now generally available. There are several other Visual Studio announcements as well.
BY Paul Thurrott with 32 Comments
I'm excited to announce the Xamarin Challenge, a special promotion aimed at getting developers started with Xamarin's amazing cross-platform mobile app capabilities.
BY Paul Thurrott with 3 Comments
While the audience for this will likely be fairly limited, developers interested in early access to new Visual Studio features now have a new option. It's called Visual Studio Preview.
BY Paul Thurrott with 8 Comments
Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2017 yesterday. But as an added bonus, anyone who downloads the suite will also get a 60-day trial of Xamarin University.
BY Paul Thurrott with 19 Comments
Microsoft today released Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its world-class software development IDE. This release also marks the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio.
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While the first version of Visual InterDev promised to be "Visual Basic for the web," it wasn't until the second release that Microsoft really delivered on that vision.
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My first book was about Visual Basic 3, and I later updated it for two other product versions, VB 4 and VB 6. Here's a look back at those early days.
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20 years ago, I was heavily invested in Microsoft's developer stack. Here's my 1997 overview of Visual InterDev 1.0, which was included in the first version of Visual Studio.
BY Paul Thurrott with 27 Comments
Here is a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible transformation that has taken place over 20 years of Visual Studio, from the early days to the mobile first, cloud first era.