While that’s good, it makes a complete install quite large. Visual Studio 2017 covers a wide spectrum of development targets. That implies Visual Studio itself is much smaller than it used to be, though it covers all of the additional target systems. For example, the Google Android Emulator alone uses more than 17GB. The size of the full install is not all Microsoft’s fault. Microsoft tells me the average installation is about half that. However, a full install of the Enterprise Edition takes 30GB to 40GB depending on the prerequisites already on the system. The minimum install is, surprisingly, a relatively svelte few hundred megabytes. Visual Studio 2017 features a much more modular installer than previous versions (see the figure below), a welcome improvement. And most companies have strong opinions about their “standard” development languages and environments.īut what about installation? The enormous size of the Visual Studio installation has been a problem since the first Visual Studio product 20 years ago. The days of being able to write everything in Fortran are long gone. After all, most software developers are of necessity multilingual when it comes to programming languages and related technologies. As you dig deeper, the Visual Studio strategy of having something for everybody all tied together with common interfaces (both UI and API) starts to make sense. Then how about using C++ or JavaScript? Both languages have supported workloads for mobile development.

Perhaps you don’t like C# but still want to develop for Android and iOS. That isn’t the only option for mobile in Visual Studio 2017, however. How does one even begin to tie web development with ASP.Net to Android and iOS development? Well, there’s a way to do all of the above in C#, with Xamarin and Mono as the technologies for the mobile side. What a list-and it’s not even complete, as there are additional supported technologies, such as SQL Server, Visual Studio Extensions, and R. Net Core, Anaconda, Azure web apps and connected services, Docker, Office, and web development with ASP.Net, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, or (big breath) TypeScript. Its expanding collection of development targets now includes Windows, Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS. In some respects, Visual Studio 2017 looks even more like a big grab bag of tenuously related products than previous versions of Visual Studio.

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