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Previewing Salsa – the New JavaScript Language Service in Visual Studio “15”

April 8, 2016 Apr 8, 2016 04/8/16
Visual Studio Blog
The new JavaScript language service, codenamed "Salsa", is now available in Visual Studio "15" Preview. Language services are responsible for providing syntax highlighting, completion lists, signature help, and other tooling features for a specific language inside the IDE. Salsa delivers many improvements over the existing JavaScript language ...

New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016

April 7, 2016 Apr 7, 2016 04/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio ecosystem. We added over 100 extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll ...

New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016

April 7, 2016 Apr 7, 2016 04/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio ecosystem. We added over 100 extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll ...

Visual Studio “15”: Installing Just What You Need

April 5, 2016 Apr 5, 2016 04/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Over the past year, we've had the opportunity to chat with hundreds of you (developers), from those who use Visual Studio every day to those who have never used it. We observed how you setup your development environments and how they evolve and change over time. We learned that you spend a significant amount of time getting the right set of ...

Visual Studio TACO Update 8 and new Ionic templates

April 4, 2016 Apr 4, 2016 04/4/16
Visual Studio Blog
Last week we announced many new Visual Studio updates, including Ionic support in the Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Update 8. In this post, I’ll highlight the main changes included in the Visual Studio TACO Update 8 release – which you already have If you installed Visual Studio...

Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
John Montgomery
At Build 2016 we shared a preview of the next version of Visual Studio, which we call Visual Studio “15” (not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015). The download is available here. This is a Preview and is unsupported, so please refrain from installing it on your production environments. This preview lays a lot of groundwork for vNext...

Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub. Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity including Ctrl+Click Go to Definition, Copy As HTML, and Middle Click Scroll, just to name a few. Since their ...

Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub. Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity including Ctrl+Click Go to Definition, Copy As HTML, and Middle Click Scroll, just to name a few. Since their ...