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Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com)

Posted by msmash on from the new-developer-tools dept.

Reader Anon E. Muss writes: Microsoft on Tuesday released Visual Studio 2017. The latest version of the venerable Integrated Development Environment supports a variety of languages (C/C++, C#, VB.net, F#, Javascript/Typescript, Python, etc.) and targets classic "Win32" desktop, Universal Windows Platform (UWP, also known as "Metro"), .NET, ASP, node.js, etc.). A "Community Edition" is available at no cost for individual developers and those working on open source software. "Professional" and "Enterprise" editions are available for corporate developers, at prices sure to shock whoever has to sign the check.

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  1. Re:64-bit by scb147 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft,

    It's 2017 and Visual Studio is still 32-bit.

    Sincerely,
    Developers

    My MSDN account shows both 32-bit and 64-bit are available for Professional.

  2. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    VS2017 Release Notes

  3. Re:$500 is Shocking??? by dontbemad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think what is shocking to the vocally anti-Microsoft (and proprietary software in general, for that matter) crowd on slashdot is that people can get away with charging MONEY for SOFTWARE.

    It never ceases to amaze me how, despite the fact that the majority of us on this website make our money in tech or software, the idea of charging money for those services is revolting to some.

  4. How do I turn the telemetry off this time? by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the last VS I had to add a compiler option to stop you from sneaking your snooping crap into my code, what is it going to be this time?

    Yours,

    An Ex-VS user.

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  5. Re:we know what vs is - did anything change? by chispito · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you have to ask, the changes probably don't matter to you.

    Fantastic point. All news is dumb because if it were important to us, we would already know it.

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  6. Re:64-bit by ebyrob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Try installing that "64-bit" version. Pretty sure devenv.exe is still going in "Program Files(x86)".

    See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
    About **still** using msvsmon.exe to debug 64-bit in 32-bit VS...

  7. Re: 64-bit by judoguy · · Score: 5, Interesting
    VFP was for serous database programmers. VB was for looks.

    I used to get hired to create VFP layers to bridge SQL Server, AS400 and other databases to other apps because it just worked and worked well.

    Wasn't a "real" Windows app in some UI ways, but when you needed to push/pull data to and from disparate back ends and integrate that data into COM based Outlook, Word, Excel and other Windows based applications, there was nothing better. We'd have C# guys come in and try to migrate VFP apps and they'd whine at the requirements to do things that are simple in VFP.

    In 35 years of heavy relational database focused consulting on different platforms, nothing was as easy to use or as powerful as VFP.

    So there!

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