Ethereum's Solidity Now Available in Microsoft Visual Studio

Ethereum's Solidity Now Available in Microsoft Visual Studio

Recently, Consensys pushed out a press release announcing the support of Ethereum’s high-level programming language, Solidity, within Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Solidity will be supported within Visual Studio as a Decentralized Application project type. Readers will remember other Consensys/ Azure integrations from the not so distant past. Concensys, as you will remember, is part of the Ethereum family. A quick refresher on the gist of the Consensys group: “ConsenSys is a venture production studio that specializes in building core components, decentralized applications (DApps), enterprise....


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