What’s new for HTML Developers in Blend for Visual Studio 2013
At Windows’ Build conference in June, we introduced Visual Studio and Blend 2013 Preview to the world. With this release, we significantly expanded Visual Studio’s support for creating Window Store...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 RC available now!
Today, we announced that the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is now available for download on our Visual Studio product site.We are also excited to share that the Visual Studio 2013 Launch is on...
View ArticleSupercharged Styling: Quickly Finding and Setting a CSS Property in Blend
A core goal of Blend for Visual Studio is to make it fast and easy for developers who care about the quality of their markup to create professional looking apps. One of the many ways that the HTML...
View ArticleNotifications in Visual Studio 2013
One of the benefits to having a connected IDE is that your environment can be kept up to date easily by presenting you with notifications of updates and relevant account information. Visual Studio will...
View ArticleDesigning pixel perfect layouts in Visual Studio 2013 and Blend
It’s a familiar scenario. You’re developing your application and you’ve got a design in mind. It may have come from a professional designer or a sketch on the back of a cocktail napkin, but you need to...
View ArticleVisual Studio Start Page: Through the ages
When we started planning the first truly integrated version of Visual Studio (prior to that Visual Studio was predominantly a collection of tools boxed together) we wanted to help developers get...
View ArticleLightSwitch Performance Win in Visual Studio 2013
With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RC, we on the LightSwitch Team have made some changes in how much bandwidth our HTML Client and Server use when communicating. Let’s take a look at what we did...
View ArticleAsynchronous Solution Load Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
Improving Solution LoadsOver the past few years, the Visual Studio team has been working hard to improve Visual Studio performance and scalability when working with large solutions. One area of...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 released to web!
Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download! We hope you are as delighted with this release as we are to bring it to you. You can learn more about what's new in Visual Studio 2013 on the Visual...
View ArticleWindows Azure SDK 2.2 Release
Yesterday we announced the release of the Windows Azure SDK version 2.2 for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. This release includes several new highly requested customer features like Integrated Sign In,...
View ArticleUpdates to Editor Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013
In Visual Studio 2013 we have added many new features to the editor. To get a low down on how these features can help enhance productivity checkout our previous post on Visual Studio 2013 New Editor...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Launched!
Visual Studio 2013 has launched!If you missed watching the keynote you can catch the highlights in the recap of the keynote. Check out Somasegar’s blog for details on new announcements made today. We...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Launch Partners
On November 13, 2013, we launched Visual Studio 2013 at our launch event in New York City, and we’re excited to share that 74 of our Visual Studio Launch Partners are delivering 123 integrated products...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Survey
On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of...
View ArticleVisual Studio Updates - Survey
Hi folks.With Visual Studio 2012 we started the Visual Studio Update program - releasing regular (nearly quarterly) public updates that contained both new features and servicing fixes. To date we’ve...
View ArticleMaking Visual Studio Accessible
Microsoft as a whole is committed to making our technology accessible to everyone (see our Accessibility Mission Statement). This is true for us here in Visual Studio as well, and we work continuously...
View ArticleProductivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013
Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience.We...
View ArticleVisual Studio Survey: How do you develop for multiple form factors?
This is your chance to influence the next major release of Visual Studio. If you build applications that target multiple devices or form factors (e.g. a single application consumed on phone, tablet and...
View ArticleVisually Creating Snippets
Get the new Snippetizer DevLabs Extension hereSnippets are a fun and easy way to quickly add code into your app. Snippets are commonly used, small blocks of code that represent a particular action or...
View ArticleUpdate 1 for Visual Studio 2013
As part of our continued effort to provide updates to customers, Visual Studio 2013 Update 1 is now available for download! You can get VS 2013 Update 1 from the Download Center, MSDN subscriber...
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