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Save with the Unity Pro and Visual Studio Professional Bundle

August 16, 2018 Aug 16, 2018 08/16/18
Jb Evain
The combination of Visual Studio and Unity provides a top-notch experience for game development across a variety of platforms and devices. While we offer no cost software for those just starting out, as your team’s size and success grows, so does the need for professional tools. We’re happy to announce in partnership with Unity ...

Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together

May 10, 2018 May 10, 2018 05/10/18
Jb Evain
The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It's the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can read the full blog post by Unity for all the details on what’s new in the 2018.1 release. First and foremost, we're thrilled Unity chose ...

Webinar: Level-up Your Unity Games with Visual Studio, C#, and Azure Easy Tables

October 24, 2017 Oct 24, 2017 10/24/17
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Join David Antognoli on Tuesday, November 7th at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET / 4 pm UTC for our “Build Better Games with Unity and Microsoft Azure” webinar. He'll show you how to add an Azure cloud data store to your Unity games and create more immersive player experiences. With Visual Studio Tools for Unity, you get the best of both worlds. You ...

Hands on with Visual Studio for Mac

June 22, 2017 Jun 22, 2017 06/22/17
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio for Mac was released just under two months ago at Build 2017, and already we’ve seen tremendous growth in .NET developers working on the Mac. Visual Studio for Mac enables you to build native apps for macOS, native mobile apps for iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Android, using Xamarin and Xamarin.Forms; and web sites and services using...

Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio

December 15, 2015 Dec 15, 2015 12/15/15
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As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.  Today we are pleased to confirm that we now provide the ability to acquire and install the Unreal Engine directly from the IDE. What is Unreal Engine? The Unreal Engine ...

Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15
Visual Studio Blog
Last week we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the Unity gaming tools and platform. For VSTU 2.0, the team put a strong focus on improving and optimizing the debugging experience. Since we...

Visual Studio Partners with Unity, Unreal, and Cocos2d Game Engines

April 17, 2015 Apr 17, 2015 04/17/15
Visual Studio Blog
A moment ago, Soma blogged that today we’re announcing that Visual Studio has partnerships with three of the top gaming engine providers: Unity Technologies (creators of Unity3D), Epic Games (creators of Unreal), and Chukong Technologies (creators of Cocos2d). The gist of the partnerships is that these three gaming platforms will provide...