
First, we’ll summarize the new installation experience, then how it is pain-free to upgrade, then the new capability to open any folder of code (including CMake-based solutions), then how Visual Studio is for everyone, and finally what is new for productivity and performance. Specifically, we’ll focus on the latest release, Visual Studio 2017, which we are confident you are going to love! We have blogged previously about the value in VS2017, so this post will just be a summary pointing to older posts we wrote that are now all updated for the final RTM release. It is that last investment, Visual Studio, which I wanted to focus on in this blog post. by improving Visual Studio, which is the most fully-featured IDE on the planet.



Here on the C++ product team at Microsoft, our mission is to make the lives of every C++ developer on the planet better.
