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Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks.
March 2021
Public preview: Azure Communication Services interoperability with Microsoft Teams
Azure Communication Services is now interoperable with Microsoft Teams in preview, enabling you to leverage a unified offering for both internal and external communication experiences.
September 2020
Azure Communication Services now available in public preview
Build engaging communication experiences with the same secure platform used by Microsoft Teams. Add video, voice, SMS, chat, and telephony capabilities into almost any web, mobile, or desktop application.
July 2020
Visual Studio Online meter names will change on August 1, 2020
Effective August 1, 2020, the meter name of Visual Studio Online will change.
May 2020
Visual Studio Live Share now supports voice chat
Create shared coding sessions from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio Codespaces to work together in real time – now with voice and text chat.
Visual Studio Codespaces: New OS Support & GitHub integration
Announcing private previews: Create cloud-hosted dev environments that can be accessed from Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or natively from within GitHub.com.
May 2019
Visual Studio Subscription with GitHub Enterprise
The new Visual Studio Subscription with GitHub Enterprise offering gives enterprise customers a simple and economical way to purchase GitHub Enterprise through Visual Studio subscriptions. The offering enables customers to innovate at scale by securely bringing open-source code, community and best practices into the Visual Studio integrated development environment and workflows. <br> <a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/app-center/" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Learn more</a>
Visual Studio Online
Visual Studio Online, a web-based companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, enables developers to work on and edit code from any device with a modern web browser. Built for productivity while on the go, this solution helps developers perform quick tasks, join Visual Studio Live Share sessions, or perform pull request reviews at times and in places where they may not have access to their development environment.
.NET 5 arrives in 2020
.NET 5, the next major version of the .NET Platform, will have one Base Class Library containing APIs for building any type of application. All .NET workloads are supported with application frameworks, including cross-platform web development with ASP.NET, iOS and Android mobile development with Xamarin, Windows Desktop, and cross-platform IoT. .NET 5 is set to release in 2020. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/dotnet5" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
.NET Core 3.0 Preview 5
.NET Core 3.0 is the next major version of the .NET Core platform, an open-source, general-purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. .NET Core 3.0 now supports Windows desktop workloads. Preview 5 of .NET Core 3.0 includes the addition of full stack C# web development capabilities with ASP.NET Core Blazor. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/dotnetcore3preview" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Read blog</a>
Visual Studio IntelliCode
Visual Studio IntelliCode’s AI-assisted development capabilities, such as enhanced IntelliSense, save time by putting what you’re most likely to use at the top of your completion list. Those recommendations are based on thousands of open-source projects on GitHub — each with over 100 stars. When combined with the context of your code, that completion list is customized to promote common practices. <br> <a href="https://aka.ms/intellicode" data-event="area-build-announcements-clicked-announcement">Learn more</a>
April 2019
Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019
Azure Logic Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2019 is now available.
January 2019
.NET Core 2.2 available for App Service on Windows
.NET Core 2.2 is now available in all public regions and sovereign cloud regions for App Service on Windows.
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