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Announcing Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Availability
Last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy; in addition to the launching the new browser based Load Test Authoring experience at TechEd Europe, hosting the MVP summit, getting Update 4 released we have been working on getting Visual Studio 2015 Preview ready for you. If you want a sneak of Visual Studio 2015 Preview in action be sure and watch Scott Guthrie and Soma announce the new releases at the Connect(); event online and watch over 55 on-demand sessions from my fellow coworkers in DevDiv and Azure (https://aka.ms/connect). If you are like me and just want to get started here are the downloads links: · D...
Support for debugging lambda expressions with Visual Studio 2015
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 to announce that the debugger now supports evaluation of lambda expressions! Let’s first look at an example, and then I’ll walk you through current limitations. Example To try this yourself, create a new C# Console app with this code: Then compile, start debugging, and add “values.Wher...
Code Lens for Git “Team Activity View”
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: Using CodeLens for git "when last changed" indicator in VS 2013 Update 3 In Visual Studio 2013 update 3, the author indicator, in addition to describing the latest author, and the number of additional people who have changed a code element, also displays how long ago the last ...
Filter link types on Code Map
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 visualizing backlogs in TFS). I want to analyze the dependencies in that code base to see if they are as I would expect them to be. I'm generating the dependency graph for the solution, and you notice that there is a new dockable window which contains check-boxes corresponding to...
Debugging C++ code on Android with Visual Studio 2015
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 Studio 2015 supports debugging C++ code running on Android. With this new debug engine, the debugging experience you’ll get includes (but is not limited to): F5, attach to process and support for debugging existing .apk's, Output window, Breakpoints (including conditional breakp...
Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android
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 your app. You can also download the emulator without needing to install Visual Studio. For more, watch this video teaser or see it in action. Before I walk you through using this new emulator, let’s talk about why we are building an emulator for Android – feel free to sk...
Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure
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 environment faster and easier than ever. This environment can then be shared across your team in VSO. Pre-requisites Getting the latest Web Platform Installer feed with Azure SDK 2.5 Download and install the Web Platform Installer. Launch the Web Platform Installer....
What’s new in Release Management for VS 2013 Update 4?
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. Here are the 10 things you need to know about Release Management Update 4: 1. Use the Release Management service in Visual Studio Online Yes, you got that right, Release Management Update 4 client can connect to either on-premises Release Managemen...
Using Release Management VSO service to manage releases
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 Release Management VSO service from Visual Studio IDE If you need to get started quickly with Release Management service in Visual Studio Online, just download the Release Management Extension from Visual Studio gallery. You can create release artefacts directly from within the V...