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The Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 CTP6
In November we launched the Visual Studio Emulator for Android and have gotten great positive feedback from you. Since then we’ve continued to work hard to provide a fast, Hyper-V compatible, x86 Android emulator for all of your debugging and testing needs. Today I’m happy to announce that our emulator just got a little sweeter with an update that adds Lollipop targets, OpenGL ES support, multi-touch input, and advanced camera simulation. Lollipop (API Level 21) Debug Targets Starting with Visual Studio 2015 CTP6, you can debug your C++ Cross-Platform, JavaScript (or Typescript) Cordova, and C# Xamarin a...
Code Map improvements in Visual Studio 2015 CTP6
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to understand the architecture of your (or, even more useful, somebody else’s) application, and where you should start when you need to update the application. Code Maps are a core part of the features of Visual Studio that help you to visualize and get insights about code. Since Visual Studio 2015 Preview, and based primarily on your feedback, we have improved several features related to architectural and dependency an...
Exploring Data at Scale with New Capabilities in Application Insights and Metrics Explorer
Application Insights can capture, store and index large scale amounts of data about your application’s availability, performance and usage. But how can you gain insights from this data once it is stored in Application Insights? In this blog post, we will take you through some of the brand new features in Metrics Explorer for exploring large volumes of data, and extracting key insights from it with just a few clicks. How to Open Metrics Explorer In this blog post we will assume that you have an Application Insights resource configured in the Azure Preview Portal (if you are interested in setting one up, you can ...
Modern Apps & Agile Analytics
Introduction Agile software development came out of a number of experimental approaches taken in the late 1990s to change the way software was planned, developed and delivered. One of the essential components common to all agile methods is the concept of incremental delivery. When an engineering team adopts an incremental delivery paradigm, they stop trying to "design it all exactly right" and instead strive for constant learning, from the customer and from the code, and then apply that learning into future increments (also called iterations). Today we typically see developers creating apps in a "cloud-first" o...
Release Management Service Futures
In November 2014, at Connect(), we unveiled the Release Management Service in Visual Studio Online. We have received a good amount of feedback since, and here, I will share some of the big ticket items that we are working on currently. These will go live in the next quarter or two.Web interface for release managementYes, we are working on a web interface that is integrated with the rest of VSO web interface. From here, you will be able to author release definitions, initiate releases, manage approvals, and view summary of releases.Ability to deploy to on-premise environments from release management serviceIn the ...
Learn about your app’s usage with Application Insights
We’re excited to introduce our new usage analysis experience for both your web applications and device apps (Windows Phone and Windows Store applications). Using Application Insights, it’s now easy to answer common questions about your app adoption, your users’ profile, the way your users experience the app, your top used features, and much more. Knowing better the users who experience your application, as well as understanding the users’ behavior and needs, lets you improve your app, focus your development work on the most significant user scenarios and meet your business goals. **Learn about adoption of your...
Announcing Limited Preview for Visual Studio Online Code Search
Today we are unveiling a limited preview of our new Code Search feature on Visual Studio Online. Code Search enables you to quickly and easily search across your entire account and find matches using your web browser. Not only can you perform full text matching but for some languages, like C#, C and C++, and additional ones in the future, it understands the structure of your code and allows you to search for specific contexts, like class definitions, comments, properties, etc.
Build Futures
At the Connect() developer event in November 2014 we showed a sneak peek at the investments we are making for our build automation features in TFS and Visual Studio Online. These new capabilities will be available in TFS 2015 and in Visual Studio Online starting in Q2 of 2015. TFS had build automation starting with its first release in 2006 and gained CI features in 2008. In 2010 we released a significant overhaul of these capabilities base on the Windows Workflow Foundation and a Visual Studio editing experience. In many ways this was a huge advancement in capability from what had been offered previously. With ...
New ways to quickly create a Code Map
Code Maps, previously known as Directed Graph Documents, are a great way to visualize the relationships and interdependencies between the components of your applications. They make it much easier to understand the architecture of your (or, even more useful, somebody else’s) application, and where you should start when you need to update the application. Code Maps are a core part of the features of Visual Studio that help you to visualize and get insights about code. OK, but I need more than one Code Map... In Visual Studio 2013, you can create a Code Map by selecting Directed Graph Document in the New File d...