Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Released
Keeping with the quick cadence of releases, I’m happy to share Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6. Additionally, we are also announcing the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP. You can download both these...
View ArticleIntroducing the UI debugging tools for XAML
One of the top requests from developers (reiterated at //BUILD last year) has been tools for inspecting the XAML at runtime. With Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 we’re pleased to introduce the new UI debugging...
View ArticleConnect(“Live”); – Debugging and Cloud Diagnostics Visual Studio Team Q&A
One of the best parts of my job as a Product Manager in the Visual Studio team is working on events for you, our community. Last year in November I worked on one such event called Connect(); where we...
View ArticleImproving HTML Accessibility with Visual Studio Extensions
As a step on the path of enabling software for all audiences and abilities, we’re happy to share a new Visual Studio extension that leverages Tenon’s HTML accessibility checker service. With this...
View ArticleTop News from February 2015
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 released today, primarily focuses on bug fixes. The release notes and knowledge base article have the complete list of features and fixes.As always, please give us...
View ArticleTools for Apache Cordova Update: Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support
For those of you running Visual Studio 2013, yesterday we released Tools for Apache Cordova CTP 3.1. This release contains a large number of performance and reliability improvements (many of which...
View ArticleA Preview of Angular 2 and TypeScript in Visual Studio
Last week, at ng-conf, the Angular team at Google provided the web developer world with an update on the state of Angular 2. They were joined on stage by a member of the TypeScript team, Jonathan...
View ArticlePython Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released
It’s been a while since we released Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 (PTVS), and in that time the team has been working on Azure Machine Learning and the Python Client library. But we haven’t...
View ArticledotnetConf 2015 – Join us live March 18th and 19th
dotnetConf is a free, live web event featuring speakers from Microsoft product teams and the .NET community at-large. Together, across two content-packed days, we’ll cover .NET 2015, ASP.NET 5, .NET...
View ArticleConnect(“Live”); // WPF Team Live Q & A
It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters....
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview
Today we announced the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Windows 10 Preview. These tools enable you to build Windows universal apps that run across all Windows 10 devices from Windows Phone to Xbox and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013
With the Azure SDK 2.5.1 Release we took the opportunity to combine existing Web Publishing techniques with the new Azure Resource Management APIs to support Azure’s newest feature for Web, Mobile, and...
View ArticleNode.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio
Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js...
View ArticleUpdated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
If you use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, you know that our long-time Visual Studio partner DevExpressmaintains it, and that it’s free and open-source. Recently they released an updated and improved...
View ArticleVisual Studio Upcoming Features Timeline
Over the past few years, Visual Studio has been shipping products on a quicker cadence to ensure our customers have the best and most up-to-date tools in the industry. As part of this, we have been...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Visual Studio 2015 Product Lineup
We’re continuing to improve upon the power and productivity of Visual Studio, making it easier to use, no matter what platform you’re on, no matter what app you’re building. We also want to make it...
View ArticleTop News from March 2015
It’s a pattern only if you see it happen at least twice, so here is our second post in the monthly top news series.This month again we looked at various content across the developer sphere and bring...
View ArticleEnhancements in Bing Developer Assistant March Update
In December 2014 we released the RTM version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio. This extension combines the power of Sample Browser and Bing Code Search to make it easy for you to find and...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview 2
Today we release Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview 2. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the Unity gaming...
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