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Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7
Fresh on the heels of Update 6, we are happy to announce the release of Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7 (version 60219.1). What’s New? In this update we have some new features as well...
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Support Ending for Visual Studio 2005
In October 2005, before Twitter, jQuery, Blu-Ray movies, Xbox 360, Amazon AWS, Internet Explorer 7, and Google Analytics, we released Visual Studio 2005. A lot has happened in software development...
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Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub. Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve...
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Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is...
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Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available
At Build 2016 we shared a preview of the next version of Visual Studio, which we call Visual Studio “15” (not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015). The download is available here. This is a Preview...
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Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM
Today at Build 2016 we released the final version of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. This release includes everything we shared in the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP release, as well as Visual Studio...
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Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin
Last month, we announced that Microsoft acquired Xamarin and welcomed the Xamarin team to Microsoft. Today, in his Build 2016 keynote, Scott Guthrie laid out our plans for how Xamarin and Visual Studio...
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Faster, Leaner, Focused on Your Development Needs: The New Visual Studio...
Visual Studio continues to grow in power and capability with each release. Our objective is to provide every developer with the tools you need to be successful whether you’re building mobile, cloud, or...
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A Vision For Visual Studio “15”: Take on Dependencies. Stay Productive.
When it comes to leveraging OSS and other reusable components, developers have more options today than ever before. Productivity gains from taking on external dependencies can evaporate quickly though,...
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Build Ionic Apps in Minutes with VS Code
With our Cordova Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code, you can use your existing web skills to build cross-platform hybrid mobile applications for iOS, Android, and other platforms. This means that...
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Visual Studio “15”: Installing Just What You Need
Over the past year, we’ve had the opportunity to chat with hundreds of you (developers), from those who use Visual Studio every day to those who have never used it. We observed how you setup your...
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UI development made easier with XAML Edit & Continue
Making UI is easy. Making GREAT UI can be a bit trickier. Visual Studio wants to be the best in class tool for designing good user experiences. We have been spending a lot of our time looking at the...
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Visual Studio TACO Update 8 and new Ionic templates
Last week we announced many new Visual Studio updates, including Ionic support in the Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Update 8. In this post,...
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New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016
It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio...
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Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is...
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Previewing Salsa – the New JavaScript Language Service in Visual Studio "15"
The new JavaScript language service, codenamed “Salsa”, is now available in Visual Studio “15” Preview. Language services are responsible for providing syntax highlighting, completion lists, signature...
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What’s new in VS 2015 Update 2 for Universal Windows developers
UPDATE: UWP Tools (1.3.1) will be live ~2:00 pm PST At //BUILD/, we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 that includes a significant update to the tools for building Universal...
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Visual Studio TACO Update 8 and new Ionic templates
Last week we announced many new Visual Studio updates, including Ionic support in the Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Update 8. In this post,...
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Open Any Folder with Visual Studio “15” Preview
For developers to be truly productive in Visual Studio their code needs to be organized into Solutions and projects, right? For a long time, that was a core expectation of how Visual Studio works....
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Improving the C++ Developer Experience in Visual Studio 2015
Harness the speed, performance and portability of modern C++ with the power of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. This release includes remote debugging on Linux devices, additional support for targeting...
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