5. Pluralsight: 1 year full catalog
Office 365 Dev: 25 seats
Parasoft: 6 months
WhiteSource: 6 months
New value for Visual Studio
Enterprise subscribers
24. Announcing
New value for Visual Studio
Dev Essentials members
Opsgility: 3 months of Azure and DevOps training
Aka.ms/devessentials
25. A mobile-first, cloud-first IDE. Made for the Mac.
Native mobile and Mac apps in C#
Build from the client to the cloud
Announcing
Visual Studio for Mac
Preview 4
26. Xamarin: Anything you can do in Objective-C,
Swift or Java, you can do in C# and Visual Studio
• Native user interface
• High-fidelity API access
• Native performance
Installer now broken down to 16 workloads
Neatly classified based on the type of development you do
Neatly arranged with sections for Getting Started, Recent Items, New Project templates etc
Developer News is now collapsed by default
Able to Directly open projects from TFS, VSTS, GitHub
Enable lightweight solution load from Tools -> Options
.NET Core runtime and framework 1.0 last June and 1.1
Tooling was in preview and has undergone some iterations
With VS2017, it comes out of the preview with the release of v1.0
Makes it very easy to bring in your previously built .NET Core projects with the preview tooling and migrate them for you.
Take the project information in the previous project.json format and transform it into the new csproj format
No more GUIDS, Hint paths, no more listing each file individually that should be included! Any file we put in our solution folder will be picked up automatically.
References section – now called Dependencies , are grouped nicely
Easily tell the difference between package references, project references and framework references
Directly edit csproj file to add/remove packages.
Containers are becoming a new unit of development
App Services is Microsoft’s latest container deployment model
Windows Server 2016 comes with native support for Windows containers
For windows 10, you need to install Docker for Windows
It does have support for Windows Containers too