Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 Preview 3

The third preview of the next update Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 is released and below are top highlights of this Preview.

• Updates to Universal Windows Platform development
• C++ development improvements
• Significant updates in Xamarin and .NET Mobile Development
• Ability to configure installation locations
• Debugger support for authenticated Source Link
• Live Unit Testing improvements
• New tooling for migrating to NuGet PackageReference
• Connected Service improvements to deployment and Key Vault functionality

To acquire the Preview, you can either install it fresh from here, you can update the bits directly from the IDE, or if you have an Azure subscription, you can provision a virtual machine with this latest preview.

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What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3?

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 Update 3 along with .NET Core 1.0

If you want to know what has been changed, improved in the latest version of Visual Studio 2015 (i.e. in the Update 3), check out the following Microsoft pages which also includes the list of other changes like performance improvements, responsiveness, bug fixes and the known issues currently available:

• Tools for Apache Cordova
• Developer Analytics Tools
• Debugging and Diagnostics
• Visual Studio IDE
• Tools for Universal Windows apps
• Architecture Tools
• Visual C++
• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
• Web Developer Tools
• TypeScript
• C# and Visual Basic
• Team Explorer
• Xamarin

Before installing this build of Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, I would recommend to checkout the Known Issues currently available in this build. Also checkout the complete Release Notes.

Point to note that, Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 now includes Xamarin 4.1. In addition to a number of bug fixes, this release adds support for tvOS, improves the iOS Assets Catalog support, improves the XML editing experience and adds selectors for SSL/TLS and HttpClient implementations when creating iOS apps.

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