{"id":6473,"date":"2015-03-23T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2015\/03\/23\/visual-studio-2015-share-your-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:05:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:05:06","slug":"visual-studio-2015-share-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/visual-studio-2015-share-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2015 &#8211; Share Your Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/vs2015-vs.aspx\">Visual Studio 2015<\/a> for cross-platform development? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instant.ly\/s\/bS9uj\">Take our survey!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In CTP 6, we&#8217;ve added or updated the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for Android API Level 21 (Lollipop).<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to Android Logcat. (Logcat is a diagnostic tool and essential for a good edit-&gt;build-&gt;debug experience.) <br \/>With Logcat, you can search for specific log messages using the search bar, toggle autoscroll to view messages more easily, clear previous output messages and choose between different log levels.<\/li>\n<li>A new template that is based on make file support for Android, which allows using an external build system (including NDK-BUILD).<\/li>\n<li>Precompiled headers in all templates (including Dynamic Shared Library, Static Library, and Cross-platform mobile templates).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We would love to get your thoughts on these and other features for cross-platform \/ native development in Visual Studio 2015. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instant.ly\/s\/bS9uj\">survey<\/a> doesn&#8217;t take too long and provides an opportunity to engage with members of the Visual C++ team to discuss your development experience and unique challenges!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your continued support!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you using Visual Studio 2015 for cross-platform development? Take our survey! In CTP 6, we&#8217;ve added or updated the following: Support for Android API Level 21 (Lollipop). Improvements to Android Logcat. (Logcat is a diagnostic tool and essential for a good edit-&gt;build-&gt;debug experience.) With Logcat, you can search for specific log messages using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus","tag-survey"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Are you using Visual Studio 2015 for cross-platform development? Take our survey! In CTP 6, we&#8217;ve added or updated the following: Support for Android API Level 21 (Lollipop). Improvements to Android Logcat. (Logcat is a diagnostic tool and essential for a good edit-&gt;build-&gt;debug experience.) With Logcat, you can search for specific log messages using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}