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As recently as a year ago I couldn\u2019t imagine what I would need cloud based resources for\u2026I had my solid state drives and the process of updating my Team Foundation Server instances down to an art form\u2026.Now i couldn\u2019t imagine my life without my virtual machines in Azure! So when I saw we were releasing Visual Studio 2015 RC by Soma<\/a>; I immediately went my Azure Gallery to see if it was there\u2026and sadly it wasn\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0 But one of the perks of working at Microsoft is the fact I often know the people that own the release channels so I sent out a quick piece of email to \u201cBoris\u201d and the reply was \u201cNo worries, we will have it up in an hour\u201d\u2026well here it is an hour later and true to his word the VM is live!<\/p>\n Thanks Boris!<\/p>\n If you are an MSDN Subscriber and you are not taking advantage of your included (i.e. FREE) Azure minutes you really are missing out!<\/p>\n For folks that are still old school, you can download<\/a> the release candidate today and read about the new features and known issues<\/a> in this first Visual Studio\u00a0 2015 Release Candidate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Editors Note: Updated the post 4\/29\/2015) With out a doubt the easiest and fastest way to get started with Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is to use the Azure virtual machine image that was also released today.\u00a0 This has gotten to be so mainstream that when we make preview builds available to our MVPs half […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" (Editors Note: Updated the post 4\/29\/2015) With out a doubt the easiest and fastest way to get started with Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is to use the Azure virtual machine image that was also released today.\u00a0 This has gotten to be so mainstream that when we make preview builds available to our MVPs half […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"image\"](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/06\/3125.image_79C7C3FE.png\" "\\"image\\"")
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