For .NET and cloud developers, we’ve focused on improving the inner-loop dev experience. New .http/.rest files make it easier to test and iterate on your APIs directly in Visual Studio, while improved Dev Tunnels help streamline the configuration and management of your webhooks. We’ve also made it easier than ever to deploy your ASP.NET apps to containers.

Game developers can now view properties from base classes modified in an Unreal Blueprint asset without leaving the IDE. Visual Studio has improved the cross-platform development experience with a new remote file explorer, Linux Console output to the Integrated Terminal window, dev container improvements, and more.

Beyond individuals, Visual Studio also has new features to better support dev teams at scale, with exportable configuration files and a persistent update toggle helping ensure everyone on your team is working from the latest version of the tool.

This blog covers several of the top new features in Visual Studio 17.5—to see some in action, watch the Visual Studio 17.5 release video. As always lot of these features come straight from your feedback and suggestions. Your feedback is critical to help us make Visual Studio the best tool it can be! 

NativeScript is a new framework for building native apps that allows developers to share code across iOS, Android, and Windows.  

For the back-end part, we will use ASP.NET Core 2. And for the front-end part — React and Redux. I will use VS Code as a code editor and Ubuntu 18.04 as O.S. 

What is a popdown? It's a simple dialog that pops down from the top of your browser window once it's loaded HTML in the background. A simple way to load web forms, content, user feedback messages, media and any other in place style content. It's lightweight (4kb) and fast.  Demo

A table can have multiple FILESTREAM columns, but the data from all FILESTREAM columns in a table must be stored in the same FILESTREAM filegroup. If the FILESTREAM_ON clause is not specified, whichever FILESTREAM filegroup is set to be the default will be used. This may not be the desired configuration and could lead to performance problems. 

This Bootstrap theme is an easy way to use the new Material Design guidelines by Google in your Bootstrap 3 based application. Just include the theme right after the Bootstrap CSS and include the javascript at the end of your document, everything will be converted to Material Design (paper) style

What makes 1.0 different from our pre-release builds?

• Stable CSS and API surface.We're now confident in the API for these components and do not plan any breaking changes.
• Supported platforms: Tested on IE 11+, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Android 4.2+ and iOS 8+.
• Angular 1.5-ready. You can use AngularJS 1.3 and later, but as soon as you update to the new release, you can be confident that ngMaterial components will continue to work as expected. 

Familiarity with code generation tools is key for modern software engineers, and whether you know it or not, you’re probably already using one. In T4 Succinctly by Nick Harrison, you’ll learn what goes on behind the scenes during code generation with T4, Visual Studio’s built-in code generator. Then, use those principles to apply metadata to a template and transform it into source code in a variety of languages.