• We improved solution load performance by optimizing design time build.
• We've added installation progress details on Visual Studio Installer.
• You can pause your installation and resume at a later time.
• We streamlined the update process so the notification takes you directly to the Installer.
• Non-administrators can create a VS layout.
• We added a new shortcut for Edit.Duplicate in the keyboard mapping.
• We made significant improvements to the F# language and tools, particularly for .NET Core SDK projects.
• The C++ compiler optimizes your code to run faster through improved optimizations.
• C++ Mapfile generation overhead is reduced in full linking scenarios.
• Debug options are available for Embedded ARM GCC support.
• We added strong name signing on CoreCLR for the C# compiler.
• Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin has lots of new productivity updates for iOS and Android developers.
• Python no longer requires a completion DB, and Anaconda users have support for conda.
• The Performance Profiler's CPU Usage Tool can display logical call stacks for asynchronous code.
• The CPU Usage tool displays source line highlighting and async/await code with logical 'Call Stack Stitching'.
• The debugger supports thread names set via SetThreadDescription APIs in dump debugging.
• Snapshot Debugging can be started from the Debug Target dropdown for ASP.NET applications.
• We've launched the initial implementation of Navigate to decompiled sources for .NET code navigation.
• New enhancements for Configure Continuous Delivery include support for TFVC, Git authentication over SSH, and containerized projects.
• You can now click on the Continuous Delivery tile in Team Explorer to configure automated build and deployments for your application.
• Team Explorer supports Git tags and checking out pull request branches.
• Service Fabric Tooling for the 6.1 Service Fabric release is now available.
• The Windows 10 Insider Preview SDK can be installed as an optional component.
• File versions for a number of Visual Studio executables now reflect the minor release.
• Test Explorer has a hierarchy view and real time test discovery is now on by default.
• We have added support for testing Win10 IoT Core applications.
• Visual Studio Build Tools supports TypeScript and Node.js.
• ClickOnce Tools support signing application and deployment manifests with CNG certificate.
• You can access Azure resources such as Key Vault using your Visual Studio accounts. 

Team Explorer support for TLSv1.2

• We have updated the Git and the Git Credential Manager components that ship in Visual Studio.
• The optional Git for Windows component has also been updated.
• This update allows Git to connect to services that have deprecated support for TLSv1 and TLSv1.1 in favor of TLSv1.2.

Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:

• Projects targeting .NET Core 2.1 or newer are not supported by Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.
• Fixed issue where installation of the SDK for .NET Core 2.1 or newer would cause the option to create ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web applications to disappear. 

The Unite Gallery is multipurpose javascript gallery based on jquery library. It's built with a modular technique with a lot of accent of ease of use and customization. It's very easy to customize the gallery, changing it's skin via css, and even writing your own theme. Yet this gallery is very powerfull, fast and has the most of nowdays must have features like responsiveness, touch enabled and even zoom feature, it's unique effect.  Demo

Features

• The gallery plays VIDEO from: Youtube, Vimeo, HTML5, Wistia and SoundCloud (not a video but still )
• Responsive - fits to every screen with automatic ratio preserve
• Touch Enabled - Every gallery parts can be controlled by the touch on touch enabled devices
• Responsive - The gallery can fit every screen size, and can respond to a screen size change.
• Skinnable - Allow to change skin with ease in different css file without touching main gallery css.
• Themable - The gallery has various of themes, each theme has it's own options and features, but it uses gallery core objects
• Zoom Effect - The gallery has unique zoom effect that could be applied within buttons, mouse wheel or pinch gesture on touch - enabled devices
• Gallery Buttons - The gallery has buttons on it, like full screen or play/pause that optimized for touch devidces access
• Keyboard controls - The gallery could be controlled by keyboard (left, right arrows)
• Tons of options. The gallery has huge amount of options for every gallery object that make the customization process easy and fun.
• Powerfull API - using the gallery API you can integrate the gallery into your website behaviour and use it with another items like lightboxes etc.

Fast timer plugin for countdown and count forward Demo

With this plugin you can easily put a timer on your site, it works both ways. You can use two version, one version is the version for modern browsers with the standards of the ES2017 and the version for old browsers with ES2015 standards. Using the config you can change the tags as letters and numbers, you can also change the text output next to the numbers.

• Carousel (Default)
• Thumbnail
• Playlist

A fileupload component based on angular-material design  Document

quicktype generates types and helper code for reading JSON in C#, Swift, TypeScript, Go, Objective-C, C++ and more. Customize online with advanced options, or download a command-line tool.  VSCode Plugin

A small javascript library for ripples Demo

npm install ripple-js

Your 21-Point Checklist for Optimizing Blog Posts for Search.