.NET Core 1.0, announced on November 12, 2014,[6] was released on June 27, 2016,[7] along with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, which enables .NET Core development.[8] .NET Core 1.0.4 and .NET Core 1.1.1 were released along with .NET Core Tools 1.0 and Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017.[9]