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How Visual Studio gives Halfbrick ninja powers

October 5, 2015 Oct 5, 2015 10/5/15
Visual Studio Blog
For this post we welcome Nicholas Cornelius and Miguel Pastor from Halfbrick as guest authors on the Visual Studio Blog. Halfbrick games, including Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, are released on multi platforms. To minimize per-platform overhead, our games are written primarily in C++ with only small portions of platform-specific code ...

IntelliTest for .NET – Test More with Less (effort)

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Visual Studio Blog
Writing a suit of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code under test is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, the IntelliTest feature shipping in the Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the...

A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
Visual Studio Blog
Summer 2015 has come and gone (in the northern hemisphere at least!), and four releases of ASP.NET have hit the internet in that time. With the Visual Studio 2015 release in July the team released ASP.NET 4.6, a major update for our ASP.NET frameworks and tooling. Additionally, ASP.NET 5 beta 5 was released with Visual Studio 2015 so that ...

Top News from July 2015

August 10, 2015 Aug 10, 2015 08/10/15
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for July. Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download. Within the Visual Studio team, we’re clearly delighted with the release of Visual Studio 2015 as Soma announces on his blog! This release fulfills the promises we ...

Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostics Investments

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Daniel Moth
When we wrapped up the last release of Visual Studio, I wrote a blog post titled: Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments, which gathered all the links to our blog posts and other content into a single place. It seems fitting to do the same now that VS2015 has RTM’d, and the same intro I wrote last time applies, so I won’t ...

Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2015 was released yesterday. Throughout the prereleases, you've seen some major announcements, from the new VS 2015 product lineup introducing Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Code, to the release of a free Visual Studio Community Edition with support for VS extensions. We've listened to your feedback on these products ...

Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released

July 20, 2015 Jul 20, 2015 07/20/15
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATED 8/7] The final release of TFS 2015 is now available. Brian Harry's post highlights some key capabilities like Agile Project Management, Continuous Delivery, Git improvements, and Extensibility. He also has links for download and release notes.  [UPDATED 7/29] Windows 10, Tools for Windows 10, and Windows 10 support in ...

The Glimpse Team Joins Microsoft

July 14, 2015 Jul 14, 2015 07/14/15
Visual Studio Blog
Today, when building applications, web developers need to consider more browsers, platforms, devices, and form factors than ever before. Recent hardware advances, from mobile computing, touch interfaces and high resolution displays, to the ever shifting landscape of browser API’s and JavaScript libraries, have elevated the level of ...

Share Your Open Source Extension on the Visual Studio Gallery!

July 6, 2015 Jul 6, 2015 07/6/15
Visual Studio Blog
In a recent post on Extending Visual Studio 2015 we shared how easy it is to create Visual Studio extensions. We also shared links to our improved docs and to our presence on GitHub. Continuing in this vein of improvements to make it super easy to write and share extensions, I’d like to share the improved integration with GitHub in the ...

JavaScript Editor Improvements in Visual Studio 2015

June 10, 2015 Jun 10, 2015 06/10/15
Visual Studio Blog
JavaScript is an important technology for development on many different platforms, including web, mobile app, and server programming. In Visual Studio 2013 we already support IntelliSense, Go to Definition, colorization, and formatting of JavaScript source, along with several other features. We’ve carried these forward into Visual Studio...