Microsoft has announced that it is going to release Visual Studio 2017 next month during a two-day launch event.
“Today, I’m proud and humbled that Visual Studio is turning twenty – we’re celebrating two decades of Visual Studio! As we hit this great milestone, I’m also excited to announce that Visual Studio 2017 will be released on March 7,” said Julia Liuson, Corporate Vice President, Visual Studio in a blog post.
Earlier this week, Microsoft released an update to the Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate containing a new templating engine. According to Microsoft, this engine streamlines the creation of new projects using the “dotnet new” command. The update also contained a feature to enable intelligent code completion while writing SQL called Redgate SQL Prompt.
Julia Liuson further added: “As part of the team that created the first version of Visual Studio, it was an ambitious goal to bring together everything developers needed to build applications for the client, the server, and the web. Twenty years ago, on January 28, 1997, we announced that we were going to launch Visual Studio 97 – a single product that would bring together best-of-breed productivity tools for any developer. This was no trivial undertaking. It was a challenging task to bring Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, and Visual InterDev into one single product. The team delivered, kicking off decades of incredible productivity for millions of developers worldwide.”
“On March 7, we are proud to bring you our newest release, Visual Studio 2017, with a livestreamed two-day launch event at https://launch.visualstudio.com. Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, and Scott Hanselman will join me on stage to share the latest innovations from Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. You will have the opportunity to engage in demo packed sessions focusing on key improvements within the product. To help you get started, on March 8, we will also bring you a full-day of live training with multiple topics to choose from. Save the date.”
Kevin Gallo, corporate vice president of Windows Developer at Microsoft wrote: “The Desktop Bridge for Windows enables existing desktop applications to call UWP APIs and to be distributed and updated via the Windows Store.”
“The Desktop Bridge makes it easier than ever to share code between Win32, .NET and UWP, taking advantage of the store’s ability to deliver easy and automated upgrades to help ensure that customers are always running the latest and best versions of their apps.”
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