Visual Studio 2017 Launch Event and 20th Anniversary

The announcement that Visual Studio 2017 will be released on March 7 was released on the Microsoft web site.

Over the years, Visual Studio grew from an IDE to a suite of products and services, including Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Code, and many others. The family of Visual Studio products extends across platforms, enabling developers to build mobile-first, cloud-first apps that span Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. It also offers industry-leading DevOps practices across all types of projects, as well as tight integration with the Azure cloud.

On March 7, Microsoft is proud to bring you the newest release, Visual Studio 2017, with a livestreamed two-day launch event at https://launch.visualstudio.com. Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, and Scott Hanselman will be part of the event on stage to share the latest innovations from Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. You will have the opportunity to engage in demo packed sessions focusing on key improvements within the product. To help you get started, on March 8, we will also bring you a full-day of live training with multiple topics to choose from.

Visual Studio has gone from a community package that is free for all developers or you can purchase the package along with the MSDN.  There are various different options available for use.  For the most part Visual Studio Community is not that much different then the professional package but in the near future that may change.  Microsoft has always made their money from the Office product line as well as the SQL Server.  You can attend the webinar to see what Microsoft will bring to the table this time.