• Dynamic Import Expressions
  
• Safer callback parameter checking
  
• Weak types
  
• String enums 
  

Angular CLI 1.1 is out and here are some notable new features:

• outputs smaller and faster bundles by default,
• now comes with a new welcome screen when creating a new application,
• has better support for serving with a different public URL, and
• now supports fixing generated code according to your linting preferences, e.g. use double-quotes instead of single quotes for strings.

Along with over 50 fixes! 

Tools: Allow script/update etc. to run when context is not in target project, but can be found in services 

npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in almost all common situations, fixing a bunch of old errors due to the architecture, and just generally making it more robust and fault-tolerant.  

Visual Studio for Mac brings the developer productivity you love to the Mac. The experience has been meticulously crafted to optimize the developer workflow for the Mac.

Manage your code in Git repos, hosted by any provider, including GitHub and Visual Studio Team Services. Share projects seamlessly with developers using Visual Studio across Windows and Mac. 

.NET Core May 2017 Update - 1.1.2 Released 5/8/2017 

Rider EAP 20 fixes a number of bugs, improves .NET Core support, has better NuGet performance, supports Xamarin Android applications, comes with Node.js tooling from WebStorm (including SpyJS), can generate ResX files, executes T4 templates (needs Windows and Visual Studio SDK), adds support for scratch files, … Too much for one sentence, as you can see from the full list of fixes. We’ll highlight a few, read on! 

The .NET Framework 4.7 includes improvements in several areas:

1. High DPI support for Windows Forms applications on Windows 10
   
2. Touch support for WPF applications on Windows 10
   
3. Enhanced cryptography support
   
4. Performance and reliability improvements 
   

This year’s first major release of ReSharper Ultimate is finally here with an ultimate support for Visual Studio 2017!