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 also extend and customize Visual Studio by building your own extensions. Use version control, exist active, and collaborate efficiently with this new release.

Features:

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

Code with confidence. Get help right where yous need information technology.

Visual Studio guides yous with live assistance equally y'all write code, no matter what linguistic communication you utilize, from C#/VB and C++ to JavaScript and Python.

IntelliSense describes APIs as you type and uses auto-completion to increase speed and accurateness. Quick Info tool tips let you audit API definitions, and squiggly lines let yous know well-nigh issues, often showing them equally y'all blazon.

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

Finding your way effectually in a large lawmaking base can be challenging. Visual Studio helps you find your mode effectually more than hands, without losing the context of the lawmaking or the markup yous started from, with capabilities similar Peek to definition, Navigate To, and Quick Discover.

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

Sympathize your code. The big picture, right where you are.

With Code Lens, at that place's no need to get out your code to quickly empathize its call structure and navigate to related functions. Code Lens goes much further. You lot can discover out who concluding modified a method, or whether its tests are passing, all from right where you are in your code.

Fix problems rapidly. Get to the heart of issues and find fixes.

Lite seedling icons aid you identify and fix common coding issues, in many cases "live" as you lot type your code, and take quick code actions (like refactoring, implementing interfaces and more) from right inside the editor.

What's New:

Visual Studio 2019 Gratis Community Edition updated to 16.9.4

Visual Studio 2017 version xv.9.21 released March 10, 2020:

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

Complete release notes here.

Develop: Navigate, write, and fix your code fast

  • New Installation Experience - A reduced minimum footprint for faster and more customizable installations, too 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 code navigation, open folder view, and connected services enable connections between your app and any service on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Visual C++ - No breaking changes betwixt 2015 and 2017. Better C++xiv conformance level, CMake support, build throughput, and productivity in the editor.
  • C# and Visual Basic - Extends back up for new C# seven.0 and Visual Basic 15 language features, and introduces new refactorings that allow you to organize source code with one activeness.
  • F# - Support for F# 4.1 language features, improvements to the F# compiler and FSharp.Core, 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 available and enabled by default.

Debug: Debug, contour, 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.

Exam: Write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools

  • Live Unit Testing - Visualize unit testing results and code coverage live in the editor.
  • Testing Tools - Acquaintance automation with examination case piece of work items using the Test Explorer.

Collaborate: Use version control, be active, and collaborate efficiently

  • New Git features in Squad Explorer and updated connect feel - Do more with Git in Visual Studio 2017 and easily discover the projects and repos to which you lot desire to connect.
  • Enhanced Visual Studio Feedback Workflow - More than 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 Projection and Item Templates - In that location is a breaking change with how Visual Studio consumes project and item templates to improve functioning of template discovery.

Equip: Utilize tooling to increase productivity and explore new capabilities

  • .NET Core and ASP.Cyberspace Core - This contains the 1.0 final release of the new MSBuild based .Net Core Tools. Using Visual Studio 2017, you can create .Internet Standard libraries, .Cyberspace Core apps/libraries, and ASP.NET web projects that use the new csproj format.
  • Tools for Universal Windows App Evolution - Updates include a new version of the .Net Native toolchain, .NET Cadre NuGet framework, new productivity tools, and support for the Windows ten "Creators Update" SDK.
  • Xamarin - Xamarin 4.3 adds support for tvOS, while also improving iOS Assets Catalog back up and the XML editing experience.
  • 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 available with the "Game Evolution with Unity" workload from the new Visual Studio installer.
  • Redgate Developer Tools Cadre 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 directly in projection files every bit package references, while maintaining the advances of transitive package references.
  • Tools for XAML Apps - The XAML runtime toolbar now lets you runway focus. XAML productivity has been improved with XAML Edit & Continue, improvements to the XAML Editor, and performance optimizations.
  • Information Tools and SQL Server - The latest update of SQL Server Data Tools enables back up for the newest features in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2016.
  • Developer Analytics Tools - Visual Studio 2017 includes Programmer Analytics Tools v8.half dozen with many improvements to the Awarding Insights and HockeyApp features in Visual Studio.
  • Function Programmer Tools for Visual Studio - Includes Function Programmer Tools with the latest features and updates.
  • Live Compages Dependency Validation - Real-time notifications of dependency validation diagrams (aka Layer diagrams).
  • Developer Command Prompt - Refactored scripts to support the new installation feel.
  • Azure SDK for .NET - Now bachelor from the new Visual Studio installer.