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On Windows 10, the startup performance of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps is improved by proactively launching and then suspending apps in a technique called Prelaunch. Many applications will not need to do anything special to work in this mode, but some applications may need to adjust their behavior, for example an application that shows ani...

Posting on behalf of Jakob Ehn and Utkarsh Shigihalli, Visual Studio ALM Rangers and MVPs As developers, we are often confronted with existing, potentially large codebases that we have never seen before but are asked to make changes in. It can be a class library received from a colleague or a complete application downloaded from GitHub to reuse o...

Are you tired of typing in a user name and password every time you fetch from or push to remote Git repositories? Me too! We have good news! Today we are announcing the open-source release of the Git Credential Manager (GCM) for Mac and Linux.  This follows the release of the GCM for Windows.  We ported this tool to Mac and Linux to simplify their ...

Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Code Search in Visual Studio Team Services.  With this release you can search for code across TFVC and Git projects in your Visual Studio Team Services account. Not only can you perform full text matching, but for C#, C and C++, it understands the structure of your code and allows you to sear...

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. Usage This ...

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:   **Note: ****These improvemen...

This post will be updated each release of the Visual Studio Emulator for Android as a changelog and complete listing of new features. Release Notes April 2016 Version 1.0.60404.1 Includes: January 2016 Version 1.0.60106.1 Includes: November 2015 Version 1.0.51106.3 Includes: Known issues: September...

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 app runs wel...

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. Overview Vi...

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 of c...