Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 is the eleventh major release of Visual Studio, released on 7 March, 2017. It is the first version of Visual Studio to use the Visual Studio Installer, and also supports EditorConfig files. It is also the last version of Visual Studio to support Windows 10 Mobile application development.

Visual Studio Installer
This release introduces the Visual Studio Installer, an installation system that makes Visual Studio more modular by adding or removing features or workloads. It also reduces the installation time of components.

EditorConfig
This release also introduces support for EditorConfig files, and their syntax. An EditorConfig file is generally used to suppress project-wide warnings or messages.

Code Styles
This release supports code styles, which are a set of rules with required styles and various severity levels using specifications.

Code completion
For languages such as C#, Visual Studio 2017 can now autocomplete various statements, such as If statements.