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Nov 14, 2016
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Connect(); // 2016 starts Nov 16th

Dmitry Lyalin
Dmitry Lyalin

As hundreds of people across Microsoft head towards New York City we wanted to take this opportunity to write a short blog post to remind our community that we’re almost ready to unveil Connect(); // 2016, Microsoft’s big fall developer event, streaming live and totally for free from November 16th through the 18th. You might be reading this and ...

Announcement
Nov 10, 2016
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Extensibility in Visual Studio “15”: Increasing Reliability and Performance

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that in Visual Studio “15” we’ve been focused on making our developer tools easier to install, increasing performance, and enhancing developer productivity. We’ve been doing the same for extensions, and it’s time to talk a bit more about the implications of these changes both on extension authors and on ...

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Oct 20, 2016
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Answers to your top TACO questions

Jordan Matthiesen
Jordan Matthiesen

Last month I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the Microsoft Ignite conference where we discussed mobile app development. I spoke about Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova (a.k.a. “TACO” for short) side-by-side with James Montemagno of Xamarin fame, Ankit Asthana from the Visual Studio C++ team, and Daniel Jacobson fro...

Tools for Apache Cordova
Oct 6, 2016
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What’s new in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 for Universal Windows Developers

Karan Nandwani
Karan Nandwani

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, we introduced support for building apps that target the Windows Anniversary Update SDK. Visual Studio “15” continues where VS 2015 left off and brings several new experiences and enhancements for UWP developers. We have been focusing on improving three major areas: While you’ll continue to see a stea...

Universal Windows Platform
Oct 5, 2016
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Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

John Montgomery
John Montgomery

Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains we’ve seen. I’m also going to point out some of the productivity enhancements we’ve made. So kick off the installer here and read the rest of the...

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Oct 5, 2016
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Join us this November for Connect(); 2016

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to save the date for what promises to be our best Connect(); yet. At Connect(); 2016, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Principal Program Mana...

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Aug 30, 2016
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New C# 7.0 features in Visual Studio “15” Preview 4

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Over the past couple of previews, new C# language features have been trickling in, but Preview 4 marks a point where the majority of C# 7.0 are now available. Here's a code sample that uses a good number of these features, and that works in Preview 4 today: For a full write-up about tuples, deconstruction, pattern matching, local functions,...

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Aug 22, 2016
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Visual Studio “15” Preview 4

John Montgomery
John Montgomery

Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. The highlight of this release is that nearly all of VS is running on the new setup engine, resulting in a smaller, faster and less impactful installation. The smallest install is less than 50...

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Aug 15, 2016
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Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

You've told us that Visual Studio makes you sign in WAY too often. Over the last year, we've released several improvements to help address your feedback. The keychain we released with Visual Studio 2015 made it possible to manage multiple identities in VS and gave you single sign-on across the IDE. In the last few updates, we’ve made changes to cor...

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Aug 3, 2016
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Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio

Jordan Matthiesen
Jordan Matthiesen

Are you a web developer building mobile applications today? Are you considering joining the ranks of web developers moving beyond the mobile web to mobile app development? If so, then we have a treat for you – a new set of Visual Studio templates, building on top of the Apache Cordova platform, Ionic UI framework, and using the TypeScript language....

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