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Top Azure News for Visual Studio Developers – August 2015
A lot has happened on the Azure side of the house in the last couple of months. We wanted to give you some of the highlights in case you aren’t already following the Azure blog, focusing especially on items that are most relevant to developers using Visual Studio. Using App Service Web Apps Continuous Deployment with GitHub Organizations. You might have already enjoyed the continuous deployment feature of Azure App Service when a web app is tied to a GitHub account. I know it came in very handy for the Visual Studio 2015 Product Guide, because it meant never having to think about deployment again. We&rsquo...
A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback
Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to us. There are two key goals that we have for the feedback that you share: The action taken could be any of these listed below (and I will elaborate on these in the post below): We get a LOT of feedback on Visual Studio. To give you some idea of the volume, we have already received over 10,000 Send a Smile feedback items for VS2015 alone since we released on July 20! To ensure your feedback do...
Connecting and Extending Office with Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio
Today, we are excited to announce the Office Developers Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – August 2015 Update. Along with the Visual Studio 2015 RTM; you can now get the latest Office development features in either version of Visual Studio. To answer some of the questions we’ve heard around what experiences are available in each version of the tools, we’ll go over the key Office development features, how to get the latest updates for the version of Visual Studio that you use, and some pointers on how to get started. What’s new? With the current Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 ...
Introduction to Debugging
Whenever those of us in Visual Studio give talks or write blog posts about debugging, we typically focus on tips and tricks and new features that take for granted you already know the basics of debugging. The problem with this is like most things in life debugging is a skill you have to learn before you can take advantage of tips and tricks. To this point I recently sat down with Seth Juarez from Channel 9 for a talk introducing the basics of debugging in Visual Studio. For those of you who prefer the printed word, in this post I’ll cover the concepts I hit on in the video. For the purposes of the video and...
Top News from July 2015
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 made at last November’s Connect(); event, and to get the big picture context you’ll want to watch the Visual Studio 2015 keynote- Any app, Any developer, with Soma, Scott Hanselman, Brian Harry, Beth Massi, and Amanda Silver. The news items that follow below high...
Visual Studio 2015 FAQ
Since we released Visual Studio 2015 on July 20th we’ve been busily answering questions on our forums, here on the blog, on Connect, and on StackOverflow. Here are some of the common questions. Install / Setup Licensing / Purchase Tools / Features Install / Setup 1. Why is my setup taking so long / hanging partway through. What’s going on? In VS 2015 you can chose to configure your setup to only install the tools you want, which makes the install lighter and faster. If you chose to do a full installation though, Visual Studio is a pretty big product and ...
Why write Python in Visual Studio?
Recently, Visual Studio 2015 was released with support for Python. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) are available to help throughout Visual Studio in all the places you’d expect, from editing and IntelliSense, to debugging, profiling, and publishing to Azure. You can find all the details and some video walkthroughs, documentation, and other resources on visualstudio.com, and the post announcing Python Tools 2.1 and Python Tools 2.2 beta. In this post I want to talk about some of the reasons to consider using Visual Studio next time you are working in Python. IntelliSense is actually pretty helpful I ...
Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension
[UPDATED 7/31] On 7/31 we released an update to the extension. This update includes notifications for extensions, and a change in the UI where the status icons (installed / roaming) are on the left. [Original Post] On July 28th, we released Roaming Extension Manager, an extension that will help you better manage your Visual Studio extensions across multiple machines. Hold the applause! For those of you who are unfamiliar, the Roaming Extension Manager “roams” your list of extensions, so now when you are setting up a new development environment or simply trying to push a few extensions from one machi...
Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels
We’ve shipped Visual Studio 2015 RTM and you have all been a key part of this with your feedback and great ideas, Thank you! But wait, that doesn’t mean your job is over :). We still need to hear from you about what is good, bad, or ugly in VS 2015 so we can know what to do more of, what to fix, and what to avoid. We look at EVERY piece of feedback that you send to us to decide what to fix, what to change, and what we need to do in our next version. If you don’t tell us, we won’t know and we’ll do what we think you want and we aren’t always good mind readers. So what do we wan...