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Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
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Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience. We selected the all-time favorites: Enhanced Scrollbar, Move-line and Brace Completion; polished and improved them for prime-time. Once we wrapped...

Making Visual Studio Accessible

December 11, 2013 Dec 11, 2013 12/11/13
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Microsoft as a whole is committed to making our technology accessible to everyone (see our Accessibility Mission Statement). This is true for us here in Visual Studio as well, and we work continuously to improve the accessibility of each product we release. The recently released Visual Studio 2013 is our most accessible version yet. In all ...

Visual Studio Updates – Survey

November 22, 2013 Nov 22, 2013 11/22/13
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Hi folks.With Visual Studio 2012 we started the Visual Studio Update program - releasing regular (nearly quarterly) public updates that contained both new features and servicing fixes. To date we’ve released four Updates, and the latest Update for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Updates page. To capture the ...

Visual Studio 2013 Survey

November 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013 11/19/13
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On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of Visual Studio 2013. While we read and consider all feedback from our community (Connect, UserVoice and Send-a-Smile), as with most development ...

Visual Studio 2013 Launch Partners

November 14, 2013 Nov 14, 2013 11/14/13
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On November 13, 2013, we launched Visual Studio 2013 at our launch event in New York City, and we’re excited to share that 74 of our Visual Studio Launch Partners are delivering 123 integrated products for you to use as well! Visit the Visual Studio 2013 Virtual Launch site to watch launch keynotes, presentations, demos, and learn all ...

Visual Studio 2013 Launched!

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13
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Visual Studio 2013 has launched! If you missed watching the launch event live, watch the keynote here. Check out Somasegar’s blog for details on new announcements made today. We also have a wealth of videos posted on Channel 9 for you to see what VS 2013 has in store for you. Here are a few of our favorites: What's New in Visual Studio...

Updates to Editor Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013

October 31, 2013 Oct 31, 2013 10/31/13
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In Visual Studio 2013 we have added many new features to the editor. To get a low down on how these features can help enhance productivity checkout our previous post on Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features as well as What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 – IDE on MSDN. Today, we want to share updates to these features that you will see in ...

Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Release

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13
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Yesterday we announced the release of the Windows Azure SDK version 2.2 for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. This release includes several new highly requested customer features like Integrated Sign In, Remote Debugging preview, Edit and Continue for Cloud Services, SQL Databases in Server Explorer, and Publishing Cloud Services to Affinity ...

Visual Studio 2013 released to web!

October 17, 2013 Oct 17, 2013 10/17/13
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Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download! We hope you are as delighted with this release as we are to bring it to you. You can learn more about what's new in Visual Studio 2013 on the Visual Studio website. Also mark your calendars to join us for the Visual Studio 2013 virtual launch event on November 13th! If you haven’t tried ...

Asynchronous Solution Load Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2013

October 14, 2013 Oct 14, 2013 10/14/13
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Improving Solution Loads Over the past few years, the Visual Studio team has been working hard to improve Visual Studio performance and scalability when working with large solutions. One area of particular interest to many of you has been our initial solution load times. For Visual Studio 2012, we implemented changes that enabled large ...