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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters
Dear developers, We’re thrilled to announce that Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available! This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you. Your feed...
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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...
Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released
It’s been a while since we released Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 (PTVS), and in that time the team has been working on Azure Machine Learning and the Python Client library. But we haven’t forgotten about PTVS. We’ve been working on some of the most popular requests from users, and today we are releasing the beta of PTVS 2.2 for Visual Studio 2013 (including free options Visual Studio Community Edition, Express for Web and Express for Desktop) and Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6. PTVS 2.2 Beta has a number of new features that our users have been asking for, as well as plenty of fixes for some re...
A Preview of Angular 2 and TypeScript in Visual Studio
Last week, at ng-conf, the Angular team at Google provided the web developer world with an update on the state of Angular 2. They were joined on stage by a member of the TypeScript team, Jonathan Turner, to also announce that Angular 2 will be built using TypeScript. Jonathan then demoed a preview of the upcoming TypeScript 1.5 release via an Angular 2 sample application. This post will walk you through the Visual Studio editor support for the new language features in TypeScript as well as Angular 2. Opening the Angular 2 demo project in Visual Studio At the time I’m writing this blog post, there isn&rsq...
Tools for Apache Cordova Update: Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support
For those of you running Visual Studio 2013, yesterday we released Tools for Apache Cordova CTP 3.1. This release contains a large number of performance and reliability improvements (many of which you’ve reported) along with support for Windows Phone 8.1 debugging. Note: If you use Visual Studio 2015 and have CTP6 installed, you already have all of these improvements! The CTP6 blog post summarizes more concisely the Tools for Apache Cordova improvements this post expands on. Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support With our Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova releases, our goal has been to provide you with...
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 released today, primarily focuses on bug fixes. The release notes and knowledge base article have the complete list of features and fixes. As always, please give us your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on our UserVoice site, through the in-product Send-a-Smile and Send-a-Frown UI, or file a bug through the Visual Studio Connect site. Thanks! John
Top News from February 2015
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as part of the process we gain insights into what you enjoy through your retweets, Facebook likes and shares, and other public opinions of our features and content. Your participation and feedback is essential, as it lets us see what stories you care about. To share our own understanding of your interests, I post a daily “Top 10 Most Active Stories” article over on my blog at lyalin.com. This month we&rsqu...