
Historically, we’ve released all our Azure images as generation 1 VM images.

Visual Studio images ‘optimized’ for developers In this post, we’ll introduce new images optimized for running Visual Studio in standalone VM instances, with Azure Virtual Desktop, or the recently announced Microsoft Dev Box service. These images have proven to be popular not only for evaluating the latest Visual Studio releases, but also for jumpstarting developer environments in the cloud.


Over the last couple of years, we’ve expanded our Visual Studio VM image offerings for the Azure Marketplace.
