New Delhi, March 8, 2017 – Microsoft has released unprecedented application development capabilities in the hands of developers with the launch of Visual Studio 2017 that delivers new capabilities for developers to be more productive than ever. Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is the world’s most complete integrated development environment (IDE), supporting developers of all types of applications, for every platform, in nearly every language. Since Visual Studio 2015 released, it has been installed over 21.1 million times.
Visual Studio 2017 comes integrated with Xamarin, which makes it faster for developers to create mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. Even as applications get larger and faster, Visual Studio 2017 features a brand-new installation experience that is lightweight and modular. Visual Studio 2017, also has new features that allow development teams to easily adopt modern DevOps practices and collaborate to react to market changes faster and continuously.
Commenting on the launch, Narendra Bhandari, General Manager – DX, Developer eXperience, Microsoft India, said, “Visual Studio 2017 delivers a great cloud and mobile development experience, boosts DevOps capabilities to drive higher levels of collaboration and productivity for developers. We already have nearly 700,000 downloads of the Visual Studio 2017 RC, the most powerful and productive version of Visual Studio yet.”
Visual Studio 2017 offers many new and improved features including:
- Boosted productivity: Enhancements to code navigation, IntelliSense, refactoring, code fixes, and debugging, saves you time and effort on everyday tasks regardless of language or platform. In addition, for teams embracing DevOps, Visual Studio 2017 streamlines the developer inner loop and speeds up code flow with brand new real-time features such as live unit testing and live dependency validation.
- Redefined fundamentals: With a brand-new lightweight and modular installation tailored to developers’ needs, a faster IDE from startup to shut down, and a new way to view, edit, and debug any code without projects and solutions, Visual Studio 2017 helps developers stay focused on the big picture.
- Streamlined cloud development: Built-in tools provide comprehensive integration with all your .NET Core, Azure applications, services, Docker containers, and more. Visual Studio makes it easy to configure, build, debug, package, and deploy applications and services on Microsoft Azure directly from the IDE.
- Five-star mobile development: With advanced debugging and profiling tools and unit test generation features, Visual Studio 2017 with Xamarin makes it faster and easier than ever for developers to build, connect, and tune mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows. Developers can also choose to develop mobile apps with Apache Cordova or Visual C++ cross platform library development in Visual Studio.
The Microsoft Visual Studio family is growing at a rapid rate. It has seen a 25 percent increase in monthly active users of Visual Studio. Today there are more than 1.3 million activity monthly users of Visual Studio Code. Microsoft has also introduced updates to Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Mobile Center. In addition, Microsoft is bringing all-new benefits for Visual Studio Enterprise subscribers and Dev Essentials members. Many developers today use IDEs because they value a rich, integrated experience with everything they need for their development process in one environment, from designers, code editors, code analyzers, debuggers, to testing and deployment tools.
About Microsoft India
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft set up its India operations in 1990. Today, Microsoft entities in India have over 8,000 employees, engaged in sales and marketing, research and development and customer services and support, across nine Indian cities – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, and Pune.
