Windows 10: New Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

Brink · Aug 15, 2018

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 release notes and list of bugs submitted by you that are fixed. If you prefer to first try these updates without installing the release, check out the Visual Studio images in Azure.

A couple of notable additions to try:

Multi-caret editing improvements

Faster git branch switching

Faster unit test execution

TypeScript 3.0 support

Read on for more details.

Productivity

This release adds notable productivity and debugging enhancers.

Multi-caret editing. Editing multiple locations in a file, simultaneously, is now easy. Start by creating insertion points and selections at multiple locations in a file with multiple caret support. This will then allow you to add, edit, or delete text in multiple places simultaneously.

Insert carets with Ctrl + Alt + LeftMouseClick

Add a selection and caret at next location that matches current selection with Shift + Alt + Ins.

See Edit > Multiple Carets for full list of actions.

Contextual Navigation. You can now access a contextual navigation menu with the shortcut Alt + `.

New keybinding profiles for Visual Studio Code and ReSharper (Visual Studio). Speaking of shortcuts, you can now keep your keybindings consistent with two new keyboard profiles: Visual Studio Code and ReSharper (Visual Studio). You can find these schemes under Tools > Options > General > Keyboard and the top drop-down menu.

New commands and improvements to the Go To All window:

Go to Enclosing Block (Ctrl + Alt + UpArrow) allows you to quickly navigate up to the beginning of the enclosing code block.

Go to Next/Previous Issue (Alt + PgUp/PgDn) allows you to skip to the next/previous issue (error, squiggle, lightbulb).

Go to Member (Ctrl + T, M) is now scoped to the file by default. You can change the default back to solution by toggling the Scope to Current Document (Ctrl + Alt + C).

And… more refactorings and quick actions using Ctrl + . or Alt + Enter:

Invert If enables you to invert your logic in if-else statements. Place your cursor in the if keyword to trigger this refactoring.

Add parameter from method callsite allows you to add a parameter to a method by adding an argument to a method callsite and triggering Quick Actions and Refactorings.

Remove unnecessary parentheses removes parentheses around binary operators that are not essential for compilation. You can configure this style rule through Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Code Style > General or .editorconfig:

dotnet_style_parentheses_in_arithmetic_binary_operators

dotnet_style_parentheses_in_relational_binary_operators

dotnet_style_parentheses_in_other_binary_operators

dotnet_style_parentheses_in_other_operators

Use ternary conditionals in assignments and return statements can also be configured as a style rule in Tools > Options > … or through .editorconfig:

dotnet_style_prefer_conditional_expression_over_assignment

dotnet_style_prefer_conditional_expression_over_return

Select develop vs Debug instance of Visual Studio. When you have more than one instance of Visual Studio 2017 installed, you can now select which instance to deploy your extension to when debugging. That way you can, for example, develop in Visual Studio release channel while debugging in the preview channel.

Performance

In this release we have continued to focus on performance and have made significant improvements in many areas.

Git branch checkout and branch switching. Git branch checkout and branch switching for C#, VB, and C++ projects is much faster for large solutions since solution reload is no longer required.

Option to not reopen docs from previous session. We got feedback on how in some cases when Visual Studio reopened documents from previous sessions it wasn’t required, and that it would cause perf delays. So in this release we added an option to disable reopening documents that were open in the previous session. You can toggle this option in Tools > Options > Projects > Solutions > General.

Test performance. We significantly improved performance when running a few tests in a large solution with multiple test projects. In our lab, a solution with over 10,000 MSTests executed a single test up to 82% faster!

CPU Usage Tools performance improvements. We have a few notable improvements to highlight regarding the CPU Usage Tool. The CPU Usage tool in the Performance Profiler (ALT-F2) can now start in a paused state, which means that it will not collect any CPU usage sample stack data until it is specifically enabled. This makes the resultant amount of data much smaller to collect and analyze, in turn making your performance investigations more efficient. Once you start the target application, a monitoring display will show the CPU utilization graph and will allow you to control the CPU profiling and enable/disable sample data collection as many times as you like.

.NET Object Allocation Tracking Tool. The .NET Object Allocation Tracking Tool joins the family of tools available from the Performance Profiler (ALT-F2). Invoking this tool for a performance profiler session causes the collection of a stack trace for every .NET object allocation that occurs in the target application. This stack data is analyzed along with object type and size information to reveal details of the memory activity of your application. You can quickly determine the allocation patterns in your code and identify anomalies as well. In addition, for Garbage Collection events, you can easily determine which objects were collected and which were retained, quickly determining object types which dominate the memory usage of your application. This is especially useful for API writers to help minimize allocations. While your test application is executing, the Performance Profiler displays a monitoring view with a line graph of Live Objects (count), as well as an Object Delta (% change) bar graph.

C++ Development

C++11 standards conformance. A new, experimental, token-based preprocessor that conforms to C++11 standards (including C99 preprocessor features), enabled with /experimentalreprocessor switch. This will be controlled with macro _MSVC_TRADITIONAL, which will be defined to 1 when using the traditional preprocessor and 0 when using the new experimental standards conformant preprocessor.

CMake. Adding configurations to CMakeSettings.json is now as simple as selecting a template.

C++ Just My Code. C++ Just My Code debugging enables you now to step-over code from system or 3rd party C++ libraries in addition to collapsing those calls in the call-stack window. You get to control this behavior for any C++ libraries when your code is compiled with /JMC (the default for Debug configurations) and the non-user libraries paths are specified in a .natjmc file. If the system library calls into user-code, when you step in, the debugger will skip all system code and will stop on the first line of user-code callback.

Code analysis experience. Code analysis can now run in the background when files are opened or saved, and results will be displayed in the error list and as green squiggles in the editor. You can enable the new, in-progress features under Tools > Options > Text Editor > C++ > Experimental > Code Analysis.

F# 4.5 and F# Tools for Visual Studio

F# language version 4.5. In this release we are introducing the F# language version 4.5. This also corresponds with the new 4.5.x family of FSharp.Core (the F# core library). With this come many improvements to the F# compiler. You can read the specs for each of these changes in the F# RFC repository.

F# Tools for Visual Studio. Some notable improvements include IntelliSense performance, transactional brace completion, an experimental CodeLens implementation, and may bug fixes contributed by the community. A community-driven effort to analyze and improve IntelliSense performance for very large files was contributed by Vasily Kirichenko, Steffen Forkmann, and Gauthier Segay. IntelliSense in very large files (10k+ lines of code) is roughly twice as fast now. Automatic, transactional brace completion is now available for (), [], {}, [||], and [<>]brace pairs. We did this work in collaboration with Gibran Rosa. There is now an experimental CodeLens implementation, contributed by Victor Peter Rouven Müller. You can turn it on in Options > Text Editor > F# > Code Lens. Check out the release notes to see the many other bug fixes and improvements to F# Tools for Visual Studio with this release.

JavaScript and TypeScript Tooling

TypeScript 3.0. This version of Visual Studio includes TypeScript 3.0 by default.

Support for the Vue.js library has been improved, and in particular support for .vue files, also known as “single file components”. If the Node.js workload is installed, there will now be “Basic Vue.js Web Application” templates under the “JavaScript / Node.js” or “TypeScript / Node.js” paths in the New Project dialog. The below shows an example of editing TypeScript code inside a script block in a .vue file.

ESLint support. ESLint support has been reimplemented in this release. So, Visual Studio will now lint JavaScript files as you edit. ESLint has been updated to use ESLint 4 by default, but if your project has a local installation of ESLint, it will use that version instead. You can easi;y disable ESLint globally in VS by unchecking the “Enable ESLint” setting in the “Tools / Options” dialog in the location shown below.

Check out the TypeScript 3.0 release announcement for all the details.

Visual Studio Web Tools

Library Manager. Library Manager is a new feature included in Visual Studio 2017. It helps you manage client-side libraries in your web projects.

Single project Docker Container. We added a new single project Docker container experience for ASP.NET Core web projects. This supplements the existing Docker Compose-based container tooling and provides a simpler, easier way to create, debug, and build Docker containers right from Visual Studio.

Mobile Development for Android

Support for Google Android Emulator. This release adds support for the Google Android emulator that is compatible with Hyper-V when running on the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. This enables you to use Google’s Android emulator side-by-side with other Hyper-V based technologies, including Hyper-V virtual machines, Docker tooling, the HoloLens emulator, and more. Mobile app developers who use Hyper-V now have access to a fast Android emulator that always supports the latest Android APIs, works with Google Play Services out of the box, and supports all features of the Android emulator, including camera, geolocation, and Quick Boot.

Xamarin.Android Designer. We made significant improvements to the designer experience for Xamarin.Android. The highlight being, a split-view editor was introduced which allows you to create, edit, and preview your layouts at the same time.

.NET and ASP.NET

.NET Core SDK 2.1.400. Visual Studio 15.8 includes .NET Core SDK 2.1.400. New SDK features include added NUnit templates, added support for signed global tools, and improved help text for better clarity.

ASP.NET .NET Framework Secrets Support. For ASP.NET, .NET Framework projects that target .NET Framework 4.7.1 or higher, you can now open and store secrets you do not want in your source code in usersecrets.xml by right clicking on the project and selecting “Managed User Secrets”.

.NET Framework 4.7.2. Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 now offers the .NET Framework 4.7.2 development tools to all supported platforms with the 4.7.2 runtime included. The .NET Framework 4.7.2 offers several new features and improvements as well as numerous reliability, stability, security, and performance fixes. You can find more details about the .NET Framework 4.7.2 in these articles:

.NET Framework 4.7.2 RTM Blog

.NET Framework 4.7.2 release notes

Known issues in the .NET Framework 4.7.2

Application Compatibility in the .NET Framework 4.7.2

API Changes

Share Your Feedback

As always, we want to know what you think. Please install Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 and share your thoughts and concerns.

Please let us know any issues you have via the Report a Problem tool in Visual Studio. You can track your issues in Visual Studio Developer Community where you can ask questions and find answers. You can also engage with us and other Visual Studio developers through our new Gitter community (requires GitHub account), make a product suggestion through UserVoice, or get free installation help through Live Chat Support.

Thanks,
John Montgomery
Director of Program Management for Visual Studio
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Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vis...-version-15-8/

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Brink · Aug 15, 2018

Visual Studio 2017 is Now Available

Visual Studio 2017 is here! Celebrate 20 years of Visual Studio with fellow developers in your area, join us on Twitter, and download Visual Studio 2017 now. Don’t forget to sign up for tomorrow’s full day of free training at Microsoft Virtual Academy on Wednesday, March 8.

We are happy to announce the release of Visual Studio 2017. This release brings a new lightweight and modular installation experience which can be tailored to your needs.

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

Download: Visual Studio Enterprise 2017

Download page: What's New in Visual Studio 2017 | Product Updates and News - Visual Studio

To learn more about other related downloads, see the Downloads page. Also, see Visual Studio 2017 System Requirements and Visual Studio 2017 Platform Targeting and Compatibility.

Feedback

We’d love to hear from you! For problems, let us know via the Report a Problem option in the upper right corner, either from the installer or the Visual Studio IDE itself. Track your feedback on the Developer Community portal. For suggestions, let us know through UserVoice.

Release History

March 7, 2017

Known Issues

Refer to the Known Issues section.

To learn more about issues addressed in this release, please visit out Developer Community Portal.
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Read more:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/n...s2017-relnotes

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vis...lity-and-more/

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingap...lopment-needs/

See also: What's New in Visual Studio 2017 | Product Updates and News - Visual Studio

Videos: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Vis...io-2017-Launch

Brink · Aug 15, 2018

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview

We recently released the third Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 and we would love to get your feedback! We’ve been working hard to polish up some features, address some of the issues you’ve reported, and make meaningful improvements in the product’s fundamentals such as reliability, performance, and accessibility. For details of all the goodness contained in this Preview, check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Preview Release Notes. A few of the notable highlights include:

Continuous Delivery Tools can now automatically build and deploy NET or ASP.NET Core projects to Azure Web App Services. This means that developers can create and configure a CI Build Definition and a Release Definition for their solution on Visual Studio Team Services without leaving the Visual Studio IDE.

Increased visibility on extensions’ impact on Visual Studio reliability. Visual Studio has a rich ecosystem of tools and extensions that provide useful functionality to developers. But sometimes, extensions’ interactions with Visual Studio can have bugs. We already provide some diagnostics via an infobar that lets you know if an extension is slowing things down. Now, the diagnostic system has been extended to let you know if an extension may have been involved if ever VS terminates unexpectedly.

Lightweight solution load (LSL) has been extended to large C++ solutions, which means that these types of projects will load faster.

If you’re not familiar with Visual Studio Previews, please take a moment to read the brief Visual Studio 2017 Release Rhythm. Remember that Visual Studio 2017 Previews install side by side with released bits, so they should not impact your machine. Previews provide an opportunity for you to receive fixes faster and to try out upcoming functionality before it becomes mainstream. Similarly, the Previews enable the Visual Studio Engineering team to validate usage and detect flaws earlier in the development process. This means that we are highly attuned to feedback coming in through the Previews. It’s a virtuous win-win cycle.

Install the Visual Studio 2017 Preview today, exercise your favorite piece of functionality, and tell us what you think. You can log bugs via Report a Problem in the IDE or share a suggestion on UserVoice. You can track the bugs you log on the developer community portal.

Christine Ruana,
Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio
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Source: Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview | The Visual Studio Blog

Brink · Aug 15, 2018

New Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1

Last week we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 and Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4, and today we are releasing the first preview of the next minor update: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7. We hope that you will use this Preview and share your feedback with us. To install, you can get it fresh from here or, if you already have a prior Preview installed, you can either click on the in-product notification or check for an update directly. Alternatively, if you have an Azure subscription, you can provision a virtual machine with this latest preview (starting tomorrow).

The top highlights of this Preview are described below and include productivity enhancements, better diagnostics, additional C++ development improvements, better management of Android and iOS environments, updated tooling for Universal Windows Platform and .NET Core projects, and an improved update experience. Please note that this is the first set of version 15.7 features; more goodness awaits in the next Preview. And as always, you can view the complete list of new features and details on how to enable them in the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview release notes.

We appreciate your early adoption and feedback as it helps us ship the most high-quality tools to everyone in the Visual Studio community. Thank you for engaging in Visual Studio previews!

Productivity

UI Responsiveness: Performance and productivity are two areas we continually work on improving in Visual Studio. In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, we’re making some of the debugging windows asynchronous, which means that they will no longer block Visual Studio as they do work. This change will allow for faster stepping because you can continue interacting with Visual Studio without interruption. In this Preview, you should see the first of these improvements in the Threads, Callstack and Parallel Stacks windows, with more window improvements in future releases. As always, we’d love to hear your feedback on the Visual Studio debugger: email L: vsdbgfb@microsoft.com.

Diagnostics

Snapshot Debugging: The Visual Studio Snapshot Debugger can now be launched from the Debug -> Attach Snapshot Debugger menu item. The snapshot debugger in Visual Studio enables you to diagnose and debug issues your Azure Web Applications without impacting the availability of the application. You can learn more about the Visual Studio Snapshot debugger through our docs.

IntelliTrace Events and Snapshots for .NET Core: IntelliTrace’s new step-back debugging feature, first shipped in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5, is now supported for debugging .NET Core applications. The feature automatically takes a snapshot of your application on each breakpoint and debugger step, enabling you to go back to a previous breakpoint or step and view the state of the application as it was in the past. To enable this feature, go to Tools > Options > IntelliTrace settings > and select ‘IntelliTrace events and snapshots’. IntelliTrace step-back is a Visual Studio Enterprise feature available on Windows 10 Anniversary Update or above for debugging .NET applications.

C++ Development

C++ Standards Conformance: In this Preview, we extended template argument deduction for functions to constructors of template classes – when you construct a class template you no longer have to specify the arguments.

Code Analysis: C++ Core Check is now part of the default toolset for native code analysis. Whenever code analysis is executed over a project, a subset of rules is enabled from C++ Core Check in addition to default recommended rules.

Linux project properties: We added parallel compilation support for Linux projects, which may significantly improve build times; this can be enabled via Property Pages > C/C++ > Max Number of Parallel Compilation Jobs. We also added the “Public Project Include Directories” Linux project property to improve consumption of includes from project-to-project references in Linux solutions.

Compiler throughput: We’ve made changes in fastlink PDBs to reduce in-heap memory consumption by 30%. These changes reduce the time to hit the first breakpoint when debugging and makes single-stepping significantly faster. These changes also eliminate a major cause of out-of-memory crashes when debugging large projects.

ClangFormat: ClangFormat support for C++ developers was added to the IDE. Like with EditorConfig, you can use ClangFormat to automatically style and format your code as you type, in a way that can be enforced across your development team.

Universal Windows Platform Development

We have included the Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK, Build 17110 as an optional component associated with the Universal Windows Platform workload. We have also added support for generating Windows Machine Learning class wrappers for an ONNX file that is added to a UWP project. Currently, both components are optional but will be included by default in future preview releases.

.NET Mobile Development

Figuring out what Android SDKs to install for mobile development can be time consuming. Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 adds a new Android SDK manager that takes the guesswork out of managing Android SDK installations. When opening a project for which you don’t have SDKs installed to build it, a notice will appear to help you download the required SDKs. After hitting “Download & Install” and accepting the relevant license agreement, the correct SDKs will automatically be installed in the background for you.

We are also making provisioning iOS devices for development easier. In Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, we’re replacing requesting a development certificate, generating a signing key, adding a device in the Developer Center, and creating a provisioning profile with a single button. All the heavy lifting of provisioning an iOS device is handled for you in less than 30 seconds.

ASP.Net and Web Development

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, currently in preview, is the recommended version of Visual Studio to use with .NET Core 2.1, which is also currently in preview. .NET Core 2.1 has a bunch of new features like a new managed socket implementation and various improvements like better support for HTTPS. It doesn’t matter which you install first, either way Visual Studio 15.7 will find .NET Core 2.1 and offer it as an option.

Acquisition

The update experience is now more streamlined than ever in Visual Studio 2017. The yellow notification flag in the upper right-hand corner of the IDE will still notify you when an update is available, but you can now also initiate your own update check by going to Help -> Check for Updates. After you save your work and choose “Update Now”, Visual Studio will automatically apply the update and then reopen back where you left.

This new update experience is just the beginning of our investments in this area, and we’d love to hear your feedback in this space, particularly about how and when you want to apply updates. Please share your ideas with us via the Update Survey.

Try out the Preview today!

If you’re not familiar with Visual Studio Previews, take a moment to read the Visual Studio 2017 Release Rhythm. Remember that Visual Studio 2017 Previews can be installed side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio and other installs of Visual Studio 2017 without adversely affecting either your machine or your productivity. Previews provide an opportunity for you to receive fixes faster and try out upcoming functionality before they become mainstream. Similarly, the Previews enable the Visual Studio engineering team to validate usage, incorporate suggestions, and detect flaws earlier in the development process. We are highly responsive to feedback coming in through the Previews and look forward to hearing from you.

Please get the Visual Studio Preview today, exercise your favorite workloads, and tell us what you think. If you have an Azure subscription, you can provision a virtual machine of this preview (starting tomorrow). You can report issues to us via the Report a Problem tool in Visual Studio or you can share a suggestion on UserVoice. You’ll be able to track your issues in the Visual Studio Developer Community where you can ask questions and find answers. You can also engage with us and other Visual Studio developers through our Visual Studio conversation in the Gitter community (requires GitHub account).

Christine Ruana,
Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio
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Source: Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 Preview 1 | The Visual Studio Blog

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