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Support for debugging lambda expressions with Visual Studio 2015

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Patrick Nelson - MSFT
Anyone who uses LINQ (or lambdas in general) and the debugger will quickly discover the dreaded message “Expression cannot contain lambda expressions”. Lack of lambda support has been a limitation of the Visual Studio Debugger ever since Lambdas were added to C# and Visual Basic. We’ve heard your feedback and we are pleased ...

Filter link types on Code Map

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Jean-Marc Prieur
In this post, we're going to walk you through how the new "filter link types" feature on code maps can be used to analyze dependencies and declutter maps when using them to understand the design of code. Analyze dependencies I'm trying to understand the dependencies in my app (the one we've chosen is an internal, experimental tool for ...

Code Lens for Git “Team Activity View”

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
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How to contact the most knowledgeable people about some code? Let's assume for a minute that I've cloned the Entity Framework open source code, a bit more than half a year ago and started leveraging it. Recently I pulled the latest version, and I now get a bug when disposing the DbContext. I'm interested in understanding two things: ...

Debugging C++ code on Android with Visual Studio 2015

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Andrew B Hall - MSFT
This post has been updated to reflect the state of features in Visual Studio 2015 RTM. By now you will have heard the exciting news that Visual Studio 2015 supports C++ development on Android (and that includes an Emulator for Android). Obviously no development experience is complete without debugging support, so this means that Visual ...

Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
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This post was updated in July 2015 to reflect the latest changes. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 now has options for Android development: C++, Cordova, and C# with Xamarin. When choosing one of those Android development options, Visual Studio will also install the brand new Visual Studio Emulator for Android to use as a target for debugging ...

Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
Charles Sterling
While most teams realize integrating the development processes with the operation processes can return a ton of value –such as decreased release cycle times and much improved response times to live sight incidents most teams aren’t integrated due to the tools. With Visual Studio 2015 and Azure SDK 2.5 can now deploy your applications to an...

What’s new in Release Management for VS 2013 Update 4?

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
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I'm excited to announce Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4. This update includes several new features and performance updates that will make it easier than ever to deploy your app from development through to production. This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Release Management...

Using Release Management VSO service to manage releases

November 11, 2014 Nov 11, 2014 11/11/14
Anand Gaurav
With Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RTM, you can use Visual Studio Online(VSO) service to set up and manage your releases to Azure. This means you can configure Release Management client to connect to Visual Studio Online service instead of Release Management server used for on-premises setup. Getting started with ...

Deploying and testing web applications using Release Management

November 10, 2014 Nov 10, 2014 11/10/14
Vijay Machiraju
Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account or to an on-premises Release Management Sever. You have created environments (either imported your Azure environments or created on-premises) to be used in the various stages of your release template. ...

How to install RM Azure extension and use the Azure VM in Release Management

November 10, 2014 Nov 10, 2014 11/10/14
Ashok Kirla
RM extension enables PowerShell DSC and WMF configuration required for Release Management Server to perform actions on the VM.  By installing RM Extension to Azure VM, the user can add this VM as a vNext Azure Server in Release Management once the corresponding Azure subscription added. Steps to install Visual Studio Release Management Azure...