Ethereum Solidity

Available in Visual Studio

Ethereum co-founders Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin to attend //Build
San Francisco, 3/30/16 - ConsenSys is proud to announce the support for Ethereums
high-level programming language, Solidity into Visual Studio as a Decentralized Application
project type.
ConsenSys and Microsoft collaborated on this integration to enable developers to rapidly
build smart contract-based applications for the public Ethereum blockchain, as well as
private and consortium blockchain deployments based on Ethereum. This integration will
be revealed at //Build, in San Francisco on March 30th, where co-founders of Ethereum,
Vitalik Buterin and Joseph Lubin will be in attendance.
Solidity is a javascript-like programming language designed for developing smart contract
programs that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). Solidity is compiled to
bytecode that is executable on the EVM. Using Solidity, developers can write applications
that implement self-enforcing business logic embodied in smart contracts, leaving a nonrepudiable and authoritative record of transactions.
The integration of Solidity in Visual Studio represents another step towards a new
computing paradigm, bringing the power of decentralized applications to the most
powerful development platform available. Visual Studio is a rich, integrated development
environment for creating applications for Windows, Android, and iOS, as well as modern
web applications and cloud services.

This integration with Visual Studio will offer developers enterprise-grade solutions with
advanced capabilities for teams working on blockchain Smart Contract projects of any
size and complexity. We are excited to continue to support the development and
innovation of the distributed ledger ecosystem.
Marley Gray, Director of BizDev & Strategy
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Making it easier for developers to build applications on top of Ethereum

through developer tools has always been one of our primary interests and
focuses, and the integration of Solidity in Visual Studio will help bring
Ethereum to a very large developer community. I am looking forward to
seeing the results that this collaboration will bring.
Vitalik Buterin, Inventor of Ethereum

ConsenSys has been working closely with Microsoft to bring Ethereumfocused development tools to the immense and diverse developer community
of Microsoft. Solidity is a high-level language for programming the smart
contract elements of decentralized applications on Ethereum. Today we are
pleased to announce that it is now possible to program Solidity smart
contracts in one of the industrys most pervasive, capable and elegant
integrated development environments, Visual Studio.
This advancement will enable millions of developers to more easily deploy
smart contracts on Ethereum blockchains private or consortium as well
as public Ethereum network nodes. With single click deployment of Ethereum
blockchains on the Microsoft Azure cloud available, and integrated
development in Visual Studio, smart contract and decentralized application
developers can get to work on their applications immediately without having
to deal with the complexity of first standing up a development blockchain.
Joseph Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum, Founder of ConsenSys

"Microsoft has been an excellent partner of ConsenSys and evangelist for

Ethereum. Solidity integration in Visual Studio will serve as another step
towards drastically reducing the barriers to entry of rapid blockchain
prototyping for millions of developers. Unveiling this offering at Microsofts
//Build conference is the perfect venue to educate enterprises on the value of
the Ethereum blockchain.
Andrew Keys, Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise
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About ConsenSys
ConsenSys is a venture production studio that specializes in building core components,
decentralized applications (DApps), enterprise solutions and various developer tools for
blockchain ecosystems, focused primarily on Ethereum. Powered by smart contracts, and
secured through encryption, our applications provide the benefits of transparency,
auditability, and immutability that are unique to blockchain-based solutions. For more
information please go to www.consensys.net.

Resources
https://ethereum.github.io/solidity/
www.consensys.net
www.ethereum.org
www.visualstudio.com

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For more information, contact:

Andrew Keys
andrew.keys@consensys.net
201-841-0672

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