The new name for what we've been calling Visual Studio '15' is actually the smaller of several big news items to come out of today's Microsoft Connect(); event oline. Among the bigger reveals is the ...

Summer is coming to a close, and there's a new class of Visual Studio tools and extensions available specifically for the latest release, Visual Studio 2017.

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 2. Along with a few fixes, the new features include automatic updates for sideloaded APPX packages, TypeScript 2.8 inclusion and more.