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Copilot agent mode is the next evolution in AI-assisted development—and it's now generally available in the Visual Studio June update. Agent mode turns GitHu...
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Apache Cordova Tooling Update with Support for Windows 7
This week, we released CTP 2.0 of our Extension for Multi-Device Hybrid App Development which enables developers to build apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using Apache Cordova™. This preview release, the third in three months, delivers several big features requested by customers via UserVoice, Twitter, StackOverflow and email – including support for more operating systems and debugging Android devices less than version 4.4 (“KitKat”). Support for Windows 7 and 8. According to our data, nearly 15% of developers who attempt to install the Cordova extension are using Windows 7 or 8. Prior ...
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available
Today we released Update 3 for Visual Studio 2013 (you can read more on Brian Harry’s blog and Soma’s blog). To upgrade you can either download the update or install a full version of Visual Studio 2013 with Update 3 already installed from these links: In addition to new features, this update also offers reliability fixes and bug fixes, including: You can learn more about the full list of new Update 3 features in the release notes and bug fixes in the KB article. Other important releases I also want to highlight ...
Visual Studio Tools for Unity 1.9
Today we released the Visual Studio Tools for Unity add-on (formerly known as UnityVS). It is now available for download on the Visual Studio Gallery at the following links: VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the Unity gaming tools and platform. This is our first release since the acquisition of SyntaxTree, and we’re excited to have the opportunity to reach to the Unity community with Visual Studio. Here are the highlights in today’s 1.9 release: And many more new features and bug fixe...
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available
Today we released the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 which is now available for download. NTVS is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich experience for working with Node.js apps, giving developers the power of the Visual Studio code editor including support for IntelliSense, the Visual Studio debugger, and for running Node.js apps on Microsoft Azure Web Sites or Cloud Services. Here are the highlights in today’s release: We’ve also fixed numerous bugs. See our full release notes for all the details and please send us your feedback through our forum...
Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 Available
Today we released CTP 2 of Visual Studio “14,” which is the codename for the next version of Visual Studio. To get started, you can download the bits (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads), or use the VM in Azure we’re making available (see the note below). In addition to the new features we added in CTP 1, this CTP also includes: You can find a complete list of new features in the Visual Studio “14” CTP knowledge base article. Note: We intend this preview to be used for testing and feedback purposes. It’s not meant for production environments. Please install the CTP on a test e...
Visual Studio Web Development Survey
A lot of Visual Studio customers use Visual Studio to do web development. We’d like to know more about your experiences using UI frameworks, so we’ve created an anonymous survey. It should take as little as 5 minutes to complete and we’ll use the information from it to inform changes in future versions of Visual Studio. When completing the survey you may also opt in to our survey sweepstakes* for a chance to win a $100 or $50 gift card.Pass the survey on to other developers if you think they may want to contribute.Suresh Jayabalan, Program Manager, Visual Studio Client Platform Tools Note t...
Update 3 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013
Today we’re announcing the Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, which is now available for download; direct links for these downloads are at the bottom of this post. You can read more about the announcement on Brian Harry’s blog, this Channel 9 video, and on the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RC release notes. As with all VS updates, Update 3 offers new features as well as reliability fixes and bug fixes, with a particular focus on three areas: support for multi-device development with Apache Cordova™, improvements to our diagnostics experience, and general improvements to the user experience including...
New Memory Usage Tool for WPF and Win32 Applications
In Visual Studio 2013 we added a tool in the performance and diagnostics hub to enable you to analyze memory usage for Windows Store apps built using XAML. Since last fall, we’ve gotten requests to support WPF and Win32 apps. Today we’re happy to share the progress we’ve made on these requests by enabling WPF and Win32 app support in last week’s Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 CTP 2 release. While the current support is limited to Windows 8.1 and .NET 4.0, we feel this is a good step in the right direction, and are exploring further support going forward. In addition, we took this opportunity to add some awesome feat...
Visual Studio “14” CTP now available
Today we released Visual Studio “14” CTP, an early preview of the next version of Visual Studio. You can find the Visual Studio and .NET release announcements on Soma's blog. We’re pretty early on in development, but wanted to start to show some of the new features we’re thinking about and get feedback. To get started, downloadthe CTP (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads). Alternatively, save some time and use the provided VM in Azure. This Visual Studio “14” CTP brings together several new technologies that we recently announced including: You can find a complete list of new features ...