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GitHub Copilot Free is here in Visual Studio
If you haven’t already heard, GitHub just announced Copilot Free! And great news: you can already start using Copilot Free right now in Visual Studio. It's avai...
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Top News from March 2015
It’s a pattern only if you see it happen at least twice, so here is our second post in the monthly top news series. This month again we looked at various content across the developer sphere and bring you what we think are some of the top stories. We hope you find this list useful and interesting; and of course we welcome your feedback. Top Trending Blogs for March 2015 Making the Internet of Things: Exploring the Littoral Space. Sam Stokes’s post on Making the Internet of Things Exploring the Littoral Space Data Storage was the fourth post /video in a series of content he published on Channel 9 Dev...
Announcing the Visual Studio 2015 Product Lineup
We’re continuing to improve upon the power and productivity of Visual Studio, making it easier to use, no matter what platform you’re on, no matter what app you’re building. We also want to make it easier for you to choose which edition of Visual Studio is the right one for you. Last November, we made Visual Studio Community 2013 available, our free, full featured and extensible IDE for non-enterprise application development. Today, we’re announcing the editions of Visual Studio 2015 that will be available when we release the final product this summer. I’m excited to share that we&r...
Visual Studio Upcoming Features Timeline
[UPDATE: 7/20/2015] You asked for it and you got it! We’ve added a Planned Date column on the VS Feature Timeline that will share quarter-year or half-year timeframes. Of course, these are subject to change but once we know the timeframe that a feature will ship in, you’ll know. [ORIGINAL POST] Over the past few years, Visual Studio has been shipping products on a quicker cadence to ensure our customers have the best and most up-to-date tools in the industry. As part of this, we have been working to be more and more transparent to help you understand what we’re working on and show you how truly valuable your ...
Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
If you use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, you know that our long-time Visual Studio partner DevExpress maintains it, and that it’s free and open-source. Recently they released an updated and improved ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. You can download this new version here: devexpress.com/act In a short time that they have taken over the project, they have fixed the most glaring issues along with a number of other changes to make the Toolkit a solid library to have in your ASP.NET application. What's New The new release includes: There's a full list of what's new in the v15.1 release avail...
Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio
[UPDATE] We have updated this post. Look for an [UPDATE] tag to find the updates. Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE. NTVS 1.0 supports the free Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Express for Web editions, as well as Visual Studio Professional and higher. Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. It’s making its way just about everywhere – from servers, to Internet of Things devices, ...
Introducing the Azure API Apps Tools for Visual Studio 2013
With the Azure SDK 2.5.1 Release we took the opportunity to combine existing Web Publishing techniques with the new Azure Resource Management APIs to support Azure’s newest feature for Web, Mobile, and API developers – Azure App Service. We’ve added Azure API Apps as a publishing target for the ASP.NET developer, so you can make use of concepts like Resource Groups and App Hosting Plans in the new Azure portal, right within Visual Studio. Enable Developers with One-click Strongly-typed REST API Clients For developers who consistently need to consume REST APIs from various vendors or services, ...
Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview
Today we announced the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Windows 10 Preview. These tools enable you to build Windows universal apps that run across all Windows 10 devices from Windows Phone to Xbox and Windows Store. In addition, you can also use these tools to build desktop Win32 apps that leverage Windows 10 APIs. You can read more in this blog post by Soma or on the building Windows apps blog post. Become a Windows Insider today to download these tools and use them with Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6. We expect many changes between now and the final version so don’t use these tools to build applications for production...
Connect(“Live”); // WPF Team Live Q & A
It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters. If you missed it, don’t worry. You can watch all the videos on-demand over at the dotnetConf 2015 Channel 9 page. Next Week – WPF Team Live Q&A Connect(“Live”); We are not done yet. On Monday, March 23rd we are once again back with another Connect(“Live”); session, this time featuring the WPF team. This will be your next opportunity to engage the team, ask your...
dotnetConf 2015 – Join us live March 18th and 19th
dotnetConf is a free, live web event featuring speakers from Microsoft product teams and the .NET community at-large. Together, across two content-packed days, we’ll cover .NET 2015, ASP.NET 5, .NET open source, and cool community presentations – including several from our MVPs, Xamarin partners, and internal Microsoft teams. For the complete list see: dotnetConf 2015 agenda Join our Live Q&A dotnetConf is about you, the .NET developer, and what’s on your mind! We want you to participate in the discussion by joining the live Q&A on Channel 9 Live, where you can submit your questions...