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“No such interface supported” in Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 10

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
Importer
If you upgraded your Windows 10 machine from an earlier version of Windows 10, and are running Visual Studio 2015, this post describes a workaround to a known issue. If you installed Windows 10 cleanly, or upgraded directly from Windows 7 or 8.x, then there is no issue, feel free to skip this post. Once again, thanks to the efforts of users ...

Visual Studio 2015 and CodeLens

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
What a release it has been for CodeLens!!! After it was launched in Visual Studio 2013 to rave reviews, we continued to enhance it and delivered a bunch of features in the VS 2015 wave. Here is a highlights reel.   Version control support Git – CodeLens gets its indicator information from your local repo, so it doesn’t ...

Code Map: From Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate to Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
When you want to understand specific dependencies in your code, visualize them by creating code maps. You can then navigate these relationships by using the map, which appears next to your code. Code maps can also help you keep track of your place in the code while you work or debug code, so you'll read less code while you learn more about ...

Code Metrics PowerTool for Visual Studio 2015 Available on Microsoft Download Center

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Charles Willis (MSFT)
Visual Studio offers the ability to measure your code’s complexity and maintainability with the Code Metrics window. See the MSDN documentation for more information. In 2011, we introduced a PowerTool that allows you to gather these same measurements from the command-line. This enables straightforward integration of these metrics into ...

Reporting on Work Items with Power BI

July 22, 2015 Jul 22, 2015 07/22/15
Jeff Levinson
Ever since the initial release of reporting with Power BI against Git and Team Foundation Version Control, the single consistent question was “When will I get the ability to report on work items?” The answer is “Today”. Shown below is a partial view of the new updated dashboard. The first question that I’ve been asked is “What...

Test Planning and Management Guide – Updated

July 22, 2015 Jul 22, 2015 07/22/15
Manoj Bableshwar
The ‘Test Release Management Guidance’, since its first release in early 2012, has been a great resource that lays down guidance about important questions pertinent to Manual Test Planning, such as: What are best practices, based on project size or development methodology? How do I structure my test plans? How do I organize my test ...

Using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Android Studio or Eclipse with ADT

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
John Kemnetz
Since announcing our fast, free, Hyper-V compatible Android emulator, we’ve heard that some of you are using Android Studio or Eclipse as your primary Android development environment and still want to acquire the best emulator on the planet without necessarily having to also install Visual Studio. That’s why we’re excited to announce ...

Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RTM

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
John Kemnetz
Back in November we first told you about our fast, free, Hyper-V compatible Android emulator. Then, we used your feedback to add features including OpenGL, Lollipop, multi-touch, camera simulation, device profiles and WiFi simulation. Today, we’re excited to announce a whole host of new features for the emulator: New platforms (JellyBean ...

Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Jean-Marc Prieur
Amongst the improvements we’ve made to Code Maps in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM are: Several of the icons that indicate the node type have been changed to be consistent with Solution Explorer, and with other tools and environments. The shortcut (context) menus have been reorganized to make them cleaner and much easier to use. You can...

Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Dan Taylor
This blog post summarizes the investments we made to our performance profiling and diagnostic tools in Visual Studio 2015. What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub. In Visual Studio 2015, we have made the following improvements: The Diagnostic Tools are available while you ...