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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!
Feb 11, 2025
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Visual Studio 2022 v17.13 is Now Available!

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

We are excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses on stability and security, along with continuous improvements for ...

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Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 2
Jan 13, 2016
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Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 2

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Part 1 of this post provided some background on unit testing with a basic example in Visual Studio for an app written with Apache Cordova. In this post we’ll make many improvements to that example using the process of test-driven development, which helps you separate the process of thinking about how to challenge a unit of code to fail from the process of coding that unit to make it not fail! We’ll also discuss a little about debugging unit tests. Again, these two posts are a shorter version of walkthroughs that we’ve recently added to the documentation for the Visual Studio Tools for Apach...

Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 1
Jan 11, 2016
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Unit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 1

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

See Part 2 of this series. Great apps—like great artists, actors, and athletes—are great performers. Human beings validate and continually improve their performances through extensive training, practice, rehearsals, and after-the-fact reviews. We achieve these same ends in software development through many levels of rigorous testing—or continuous validation—across the entire app lifecycle. Chances are you’ve heard about unit testing, but you might not be clear on what it is, exactly, and how it fits into a cross-platform app project build with Apache Cordova. In the documentation f...

Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio
Dec 15, 2015
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Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.  Today we are pleased to confirm that we now provide the ability to acquire and install the Unreal Engine directly from the IDE. What is Unreal Engine? The Unreal Engine is a cross-platform game engine targeting DirectX 11 and 12 for PC and Xbox, OpenGL for iOS, OS X and Android, and WebGL for the Web.  Console development on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is also available on the Unreal Engine for registered developers of those platforms. Unreal...

The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year
Dec 10, 2015
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The .NET Journey: Recapping the last year

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Having just completed Connect(); // 2015, we thought to take a moment to review everything that’s happened with .NET over the last year, between last year's and this year's Connect();. And what a year it’s been! We’ve seen significant developments in the .NET Framework, including the release of new versions, and also the release of two new technologies, .NET Native and .NET Core, both of which will change the ways in which the .NET Framework is used and the platforms on which it is supported. The .NET Framework 4.6 The .NET Framework version 4.6 was released in July with Visual Studio 2015 and...

Connect(“demos”); // 2015: HealthClinic.biz
Dec 8, 2015
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Connect(“demos”); // 2015: HealthClinic.biz

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

During Connect(); //2015 we showcased many technologies available to you as a developer across Azure, Office, Windows, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. We’ve also heard from you that you love to have real-world applications through which you can directly experience what’s possible using those technologies. This year, then, we built out a full health and technology scenario for our Connect(); //2015 demos and are delighted to share all the source code with you: HealthClinic.biz is a fictitious regular doctor practice specialized in offering healthcare preventive care. This clinic i...

Visual Studio Update 1 RTM
Nov 30, 2015
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Visual Studio Update 1 RTM

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Today we’re releasing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Let me be the first to thank everyone who installed these earlier releases, provided feedback, and helped us iron out the kinks. [The final release of Team Foundation Server Update 1 is also available today, which you can read about on Brian Harry's blog.] I’ve already shared many of the features that we introduced in the CTP and the release candidate (RC), and you can find a complete list of features in Update 1 in the Visual Studio Update 1 RTM Release Notes. Let me now highlight the final additions made for RTM: A...

Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015
Nov 30, 2015
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Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and other development processes to execute in parallel over a distributed network. It works locally on your development box and over a build server, and can also make use of idle CPU cycles in other computers over the entire network. In addition, developers with Visual Studio can use IncrediBuild to scale to the cloud via Azure to add more computing resources, substantially increasing performance, speeding up build time, and improving overall developer productivity. IncrediBuild is used by many Visual Studio customers today and is seen ...

Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015
Nov 23, 2015
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Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

We’re pleased to announce that Update 1 for the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 is ready for you to install! This update includes a vocabulary change in our tools, Apps for Office and SharePoint are now known as Office and SharePoint Add-ins, and bug fixes, such as the Office/SharePoint node not appearing under Visual C# in the New Project dialog. Second, we have also released a preview of the next round of improvements to these tools. We invite you to shape their future by giving us your feedback through Send-A-Smile or Microsoft Connect. You can start by trying out the new project typ...

Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio Released
Nov 18, 2015
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Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio Released

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Since our first stable release of Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) earlier this year, we have seen a lot of interest in this free extension. We are both humbled and excited by the response and community engagement on GitHub. We’ve been hard at work developing interim releases with the support of our vibrant community. And today, we are pleased to announce that our next stable release of Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio is available for download. NTVS 1.1 supports Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015 (including the free Visual Studio Community Edition and Express for Web). To learn more about NTVS v1...