One significant feature targeted at Visual Studio developers is the ability to choose between native code (C++) and managed code (VB.NET or C#) for creating mobile applications. Writing in C++ gives ...

For example, Visual Studio 2017 now starts up three times faster, project load times are four times faster, and build speeds on C++ projects are also noticeably quicker, Montgomery wrote.

Late last year, Microsoft launched Visual Studio App Center, its new unified mobile app development lifecycle solution for developers who want to write iOS, Android, Windows and macOS apps.

Microsoft's CodePush for mobile applications is now available in the Visual Studio Mobile Center for developers to deploy updates to the cloud.

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Xamarin is furthering its mission to make C# the mobile-development language of choice by allowing iOS coders to use Microsoft's Visual Studio.

Also with Visual Studio 2022 17.5, Go To Definition for C++ now will use a more subtle indicator when the operation is taking more time, replacing the previous modal dialog. Microsoft also is ...

Developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio Mobile Center back-end service hub can now directly update JavaScript-based apps via the CodePush service.

Visual Studio gives C++ developers a productivity boost, plus better debugging for Blazor WebAssembly offline apps.