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Support for Team Foundation Server 2015 in SonarQube TFVC SCM Plugin

We are happy to announce a new version of the SonarQube TFVC SCM plugin (2.1) that adds support for Team Foundation Server 2015. The previous version of the plug-in supports TFS 2013 and below. With this plugin, when using TFS 2015, you can now see user information picked from TFVC in the source code browser on the SonarQube Server. (image...

Searching and filtering the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window

With Visual Studio 2015 RTM we shipped the first version of the Diagnostic Tools window. In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we’ve made the following improvements to the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window to help you read through and understand the list of events even faster and more efficiently than before:  (image) **Note: ****...

Marshmallow (API 23) now available in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Marshmallow images in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Marshmallow (Android version 6.0, API Level 23) is the latest release of Android, and includes a set of new APIs for developers to use. If you’ve developed an app for other versions of Android, you’ll want to make sure your ...

Profile Your CPU in the Debugger in Visual Studio 2015

This blog post introduces the updates to the CPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. First we will define and introduce the CPU Usage tool and then we’ll go over some of its features. If you would like to provide feedback about your profiling experiences, we’d love to hear from you: take this short survey or drop us an e-mail. ...

Improvement to Debugging C++ Access Violations in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

In this blog post I will introduce a small but useful Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 improvement for debugging C/C++ code. When writing C/C++ code it is common to deal with complex lines that utilize multiple pointers, for example dereferencing multiple pointers on a single line. However, it can be difficult to decipher which part of that line...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio

Expanding our support for Java IDEs and following in the footsteps of our Eclipse plugin, today we are announcing a preview of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ that works with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. This new plugin provides features for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO).  ...

Application Performance Analysis Survey

My name is Nikhil, and I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Our team has been investing heavily in making it easier to solve performance problems in your applications.If you have two minutes, I'd love to hear your feedback on dealing with performance problems in your applications by filling out the survey below. Your...