Use Visual Studio 2017 to develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, spider web, and cloud. Code fast, debug and diagnose with ease, exam often, and release with confidence. You can besides extend and customize Visual Studio by edifice your own extensions. Utilise version control, be agile, and collaborate efficiently with this new release.

Features:

  • Tools and services for projects of whatsoever size or complexity
  • C#, Visual Basic, F#, C++, Python, Node.js, and HTML/JavaScript
  • Sprint planning
  • Advanced debugging, automated and manual testing, and profiling
  • DevOps with automatic deployments and continuous monitoring

Lawmaking with confidence. Get aid right where y'all demand it.

Visual Studio guides you lot with live assist equally you lot write code, no affair what language you lot use, from C#/VB and C++ to JavaScript and Python.

IntelliSense describes APIs as you type and uses auto-completion to increase speed and accuracy. Quick Info tool tips let you lot audit API definitions, and squiggly lines allow y'all know near problems, ofttimes showing them as yous type.

Navigate in context. Don't lose your place as you explore.

Finding your style around in a big code base tin can exist challenging. Visual Studio helps yous find your way around more than easily, without losing the context of the code or the markup y'all started from, with capabilities like Peek to definition, Navigate To, and Quick Observe.

Enhanced Scrollbar's 10,000 foot structural view of your code file lets y'all speedily pinpoint bug. See the object structure of your code easily with inline object browsing in the Solution Explorer, and quickly search for files in your solution.

Sympathise your code. The big picture, correct where you lot are.

With Lawmaking Lens, there'southward no demand to leave your code to quickly empathise its call structure and navigate to related functions. Code Lens goes much further. Y'all can find out who terminal modified a method, or whether its tests are passing, all from right where y'all are in your code.

Ready issues rapidly. Get to the eye of issues and find fixes.

Calorie-free bulb icons assist you lot identify and fix common coding issues, in many cases "live" as you lot type your code, and accept quick code actions (like refactoring, implementing interfaces and more) from right inside the editor.

What's New:

Visual Studio 2019 Gratuitous Community Edition updated to sixteen.9.4

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.ix.21 released March 10, 2020:

  • Fixed a bug where the .Cyberspace Profiling tools couldn't be installed on non-enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2017 when using an offline installer.
  • Fixed C++ compiler bug where a static_cast in a decltype would evaluate incorrectly. To minimize disruptions to existing codebases, in VS2017 this set takes effect when the (newly added) /d1decltypeIdentityConversion switch is thrown.
  • New Spectre mitigation options in C++ compiler: /Qspectre-load & /Qspectre-load-cf for speculative load hardening.

Consummate release notes here.

Develop: Navigate, write, and fix your code fast

  • New Installation Experience - A reduced minimum footprint for faster and more customizable installations, likewise as support for offline installs.
  • Visual Studio IDE - A broad range of enhancements in Visual Studio 2017, including reduction in startup and solution load times, sign in and identity improvements, improved lawmaking navigation, open folder view, and continued services enable connections betwixt your app and whatever service on-premises or in the deject.
  • Visual C++ - No breaking changes between 2015 and 2017. Amend C++14 conformance level, CMake back up, build throughput, and productivity in the editor.
  • C# and Visual Basic - Extends support for new C# 7.0 and Visual Basic 15 linguistic communication features, and introduces new refactorings that allow yous to organize source code with one activeness.
  • F# - Support for F# 4.1 linguistic communication features, improvements to the F# compiler and FSharp.Cadre, and a new editor based on Roslyn Workspaces.
  • JavaScript and TypeScript - TypeScript 2.1 is available for all TypeScript projects in Visual Studio. A new JavaScript language service is bachelor and enabled by default.

Debug: Debug, profile, and diagnose with ease

  • Debugging and Diagnostics - Overhaul of the Exception Helper and faster code navigation with Run to Click. Plus, a new summary of your application events in the Diagnostic Tools window and several improvements to the CPU Tool.

Test: Write loftier-quality lawmaking with comprehensive testing tools

  • Live Unit of measurement Testing - Visualize unit of measurement testing results and lawmaking coverage alive in the editor.
  • Testing Tools - Associate automation with test case work items using the Test Explorer.

Collaborate: Use version command, exist agile, and collaborate efficiently

  • New Git features in Team Explorer and updated connect experience - Practice more with Git in Visual Studio 2017 and easily find the projects and repos to which you want to connect.
  • Enhanced Visual Studio Feedback Workflow - More collaborative Report-A-Problem. Search, follow, and vote to get latest updates on all feedback.

Extend: Customize to your liking by building your own extensions

  • Visual Studio Extensions - Customize Visual Studio to your liking by edifice your own extensions.
  • Discoverability of Project and Item Templates - There is a breaking alter with how Visual Studio consumes project and item templates to improve operation of template discovery.

Equip: Utilise tooling to increase productivity and explore new capabilities

  • .Net Cadre and ASP.Internet Core - This contains the one.0 last release of the new MSBuild based .Internet Cadre Tools. Using Visual Studio 2017, you tin can create .NET Standard libraries, .NET Core apps/libraries, and ASP.NET web projects that utilise the new csproj format.
  • Tools for Universal Windows App Evolution - Updates include a new version of the .NET Native toolchain, .NET Core NuGet framework, new productivity tools, and back up for the Windows 10 "Creators Update" SDK.
  • Xamarin - Xamarin 4.three adds back up for tvOS, while also improving iOS Assets Catalog support and the XML editing feel.
  • Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova - A new browser-based simulator enables you to code fast and see the results immediately.
  • Node.js Tools for Visual Studio - Updates focused on stability, performance, and overall product quality.
  • Visual Studio Tools for Unity - Visual Studio Tools for Unity 3 is now bachelor with the "Game Development with Unity" workload from the new Visual Studio installer.
  • Redgate Programmer Tools Core Edition - To extend DevOps capabilities to SQL database development, Visual Studio now includes Redgate Developer Tools Core Edition, comprising Redgate ReadyRoll, SQL Search, and SQL Prompt.
  • NuGet - NuGet now supports storing package dependency information direct in project files equally package references, while maintaining the advances of transitive package references.
  • Tools for XAML Apps - The XAML runtime toolbar now lets you rail focus. XAML productivity has been improved with XAML Edit & Continue, improvements to the XAML Editor, and functioning optimizations.
  • Data Tools and SQL Server - The latest update of SQL Server Data Tools enables support for the newest features in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016.
  • Developer Analytics Tools - Visual Studio 2017 includes Developer Analytics Tools v8.6 with many improvements to the Application Insights and HockeyApp features in Visual Studio.
  • Office Programmer Tools for Visual Studio - Includes Role Programmer Tools with the latest features and updates.
  • Live Architecture Dependency Validation - Existent-time notifications of dependency validation diagrams (aka Layer diagrams).
  • Developer Command Prompt - Refactored scripts to support the new installation feel.
  • Azure SDK for .Net - At present bachelor from the new Visual Studio installer.