Lots of announcements the Connect(); 2016 event around the new wave of tools from Microsoft.

TL; DR; Microsoft released Visual Studio for Mac, .NET Core 1.1 (with ASP.NET Core and EF Core) and Visual Studio 2017 RC… and many other Azure related and mobile related features

Here a selection of all the posts from various offical blogs about what happened recently:

• The expanding Visual Studio family of products
• Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
• Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac
• Announcing .NET Core 1.1
• Announcing the Fastest ASP.NET Yet, ASP.NET Core 1.1 RTM

If you want to go bit more in details of some of the features, here are some more in-depth coverage of the some of them:

• Put a .NET Core App in a Container with the new Docker Tools for Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Development – Introducing Visual Studio for Mac
• Visual Studio Development – Productivity Enhancements in Visual Studio 2017 RC
• Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support

The conference is not over yet, so make sure you tune in at https://connectevent.microsoft.com/ for more in depth video about the new line of Visual Studio tools and for the Future of .NET