Solidity now available in Visual Studio

Consensys and Microsoft have partnered to bring Solidity, the Ethereum contract programming language, to Microsoft’s visual studio Integrated development environment. ConsenSys and Microsoft have collaborated on this integration to enable developers to quickly build smart contract-based applications for the public Ethereum blockchain, as well as for private and consortium blockchain deployments on Ethereum. This integration is released at: //build, Microsoft’s annual developer conference in San Francisco on March 30; Vitalik Buterin, Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin, and Consensys Enterprise Director Andrew Keys will attend.

//Vitalik, Andrew and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the Build pre-conference reception.

Integration takes the form of: Visual Studio Extensions Create project scaffolding with smart contract sample code, generate ABI and binary files for deployment, support context menus for compiling and deploying smart contracts, and automatically generated UI for contract invocation for testing purposes. Build .

This is not the first time Microsoft has expressed interest in Ethereum technology. The Ethereum blockchain as a service offering has been launched. Available from November 2015has been expanded to include . BlockApps Strato Ethereum Toolkit and several Ethereum applications, including: Cetas Decentralized KYC System, Augur Prediction Market, ether camp and Slock it IoT platform. We look forward to continuing to work with Microsoft to bring Ethereum and blockchain technology to the public.