Visual Studio 2017

Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is an integrated solution that enables individuals and development teams of any size to turn their ideas into exceptional, compelling applications. It enables all stakeholders involved in software delivery to take advantage of state-of-the-art tooling to create outstanding experiences that delight the end users of your consumer and business applications, with a simplified development solution that enables quality through all the tasks and roles involved in a software project.

New Features

• Boosted productivity: Enhancements to code navigation, IntelliSense, refactoring, code fixes and debugging, saves you time and effort on everyday tasks regardless of language or platform. For teams embracing DevOps, Visual Studio 2017 streamlines your inner loop and speeds up code flow with the brand new real time features such as live unit testing and real-time architectural dependency validation.
  
• Redefined fundamentals: There is a renewed focus to enhance the efficiency of the fundamental tasks you encounter on daily basis. From a brand-new lightweight and modular installation tailored to your need, a faster IDE from startup to shut down, to a new way of view, edit and debug any code without projects and solutions. Visual Studio 2017 helps you stay focused on the big picture.
  
• Streamlined Azure development Built-in suite of Azure tools that enable you to easily create cloud-first applications powered by Microsoft Azure. Visual Studio 2017 makes it easy to configure, build, debug, package and deploy applications and services on Microsoft Azure directly from the IDE.
  
• Five-star mobile development With advanced debugging and profiling tools and unit test generation features, Visual Studio 2017 with Xamarin makes it faster and easier than ever for you to build, connect and tune mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows. You can also choose to develop mobile apps with Apache Cordova or Visual C++ cross platform library development in Visual Studio.
  

Editions

• Visual Studio Professional 2017 RC: Professional developer tools, services and subscription benefits for small teams
• Visual Studio Enterprise 2017 RC: End-to-end solution to meet demanding quality and scale needs of teams of all sizes
  

Visual Studio 2017 - Features

Develop

Navigate, write, and fix your code fast.

• Code with confidence - Get help right where you need it
• Navigate in context - Dont lose your place as you explore
• Understand your code - The big picture, right where you are
• Fix issues quickly - Get to the heart of issues and find fixes
• Fix issues quickly - Get to the heart of issues and find fixes
• Refactor with ease - Let the IDE take the strain

Debug

Debug, profile, and diagnose with ease.

• Debug cross-language - Rich debugging for all your code
• Any platform or place - Locally, remotely, and in production
• Fine-grained control - Decide exactly where and when you want to break and examine state
• Flexibly inspect state - See values of variables at runtime
• Exceptions are good - Get alerted when things go wrong
• Threading made easy - Simplify control and inspection of complex multi-threaded code

Test

Write high-quality code with comprehensive testing tools.

• Unit Testing
• IntelliTest
• UI Testing
• Load and Web Performance Testing
• Test Explorer
• Code Coverage Analysis

Collaborate

Use version control, be agile, collaborate efficiently.

• Flexible and extensible version control - Distributed or centralized, with extensions
• Powerful Git support - Git commands built it
• Seamless workflow integration - Links to tasks, bugs, stories, pull requests, and builds
• Easy repo management - Multiple accounts in one place
• In-Context collaboration - Code history at your fingertips

Visual Studio 2017 - System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems

Visual Studio 2017 will install and run on the following operating systems:

• Windows 10 version 1507 or higher: Home, Professional, Education, and Enterprise (LTSB is not supported)
• Windows Server 2016: Standard and Datacenter
• Windows 8.1 (with Update 2919355): Basic, Professional, and Enterprise
• Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Update 2919355): Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
• Windows 7 SP1 (with latest Windows Updates): Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate

Hardware

• 1.8 GHz or faster processor. Dual-core or better recommended
• 2 GB of RAM; 4 GB of RAM recommended (2.5 GB minimum if running on a virtual machine)
• Hard disk space: 1GB to 40GB, depending on features installed
• Video card that supports a minimum display resolution of 720p (1280 by 720); Visual Studio will work best at a resolution of WXGA (1366 by 768) or higher

Supported Langauges

Visual Studio is available in: English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish, Turkish

Additional Requirements

• .NET Framework 4.5 is required to install Visual Studio. Visual Studio requires .NET Framework 4.6.1, which will be installed during setup.
• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB edition is not supported for development. You may use Visual Studio 2017 to build apps that run on Windows 10 LTSB.
• Internet Explorer 11 or Edge is required for internet-related scenarios. Some features might not work unless these, or a later version, are installed.
• For emulator support, Windows 8.1 Pro or Enterprise (x64) editions are required. A processor that supports Client Hyper-V and Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) is also required.
• Universal Windows app development, including designing, editing, and debugging, requires Windows 10. Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2 may be used to build Universal Windows apps from the command line.
• Team Foundation Server 2017 Office Integration requires Office 2016, Office 2013, or Office 2010.
• Xamarin.Android requires a 64-bit edition of Windows and the 64-bit Java Development Kit (JDK).
• PowerShell 3.0 or higher is required on Windows 7 SP1 to install the Mobile Development with C++, JavaScript, or .NET workloads.