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Visual Studio TACO Update 10

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

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We are proud to present Update 10 of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). You can look forward to installing it with Update 3 of Visual Studio 2015, or download and install it directly now. If this is the first time you’ve heard of TACO, try our beginner’s guide and build your first app for Android, iOS and Windows, with ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

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Today we are sharing Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC. This release candidate primarily focuses on stability, performance, and bug fixes, but we also have some feature updates. I’ll share highlights in the rest of this post. Tools for Apache Cordova. This update includes TACO Update 9 and TACO Update 10, which adds plugins for Intune, Azure ...

dotnetConf is back! Free live streaming developer event – June 7th-9th 2016

June 6, 2016 Jun 6, 2016 06/6/16

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(image) .NET plays an important role in the lives of many Visual Studio developers, I for one have worked on many ASP.NET, WPF Desktop and other back-end .NET services over the years in my career and therefore its really exciting for me to be part of the team to bring you yet another dotnetConf, back again and streaming live this week (and ...

dotnetConf is back! Free live streaming developer event – June 7th-9th 2016

June 6, 2016 Jun 6, 2016 06/6/16

Visual Studio Blog

(image) .NET plays an important role in the lives of many Visual Studio developers, I for one have worked on many ASP.NET, WPF Desktop and other back-end .NET services over the years in my career and therefore its really exciting for me to be part of the team to bring you yet another dotnetConf, back again and streaming live this week (and ...

Announcing the new Desktop to UWP Packaging Project for Visual Studio “15”

May 17, 2016 May 17, 2016 05/17/16

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At the Build 2016 conference, we released the Desktop App Converter which enables you to bring your existing desktop applications to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). With the Desktop App Converter, a number of important improvements are being made to the Windows platform for all developers. First, you can convert existing Windows desktop...

Announcing Updated Web Development Tools for ASP.NET Core RC2

May 16, 2016 May 16, 2016 05/16/16

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We are pleased to announce the ASP.NET Core Tooling Preview release to support the .NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2 release. Get the new version of the framework and Visual Studio 2015 support now at: http://dot.net Tooling Preview, What’s That? With this release, we’re splitting the delivery of the Visual Studio tools from the ASP.NET ...

Macros extension: VS 2015 support and open-sourced

May 11, 2016 May 11, 2016 05/11/16

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Macros have always been popular, first as part of the product, and now as an extension. In response to your feedback we have upgraded the Macros for Visual Studio 2013 extension to be compatible with Visual Studio 2015. You can download the upgraded extension from the Visual Studio Gallery. But wait, there's more! As part of our commitment to...

Visual Studio “15” Preview 2

May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016 05/10/16

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Last month, we released our first preview of the next version of Visual Studio. After listening to your feedback, we have fixed issues and improved experiences in this preview. Download Visual Studio “15” Preview 2 to get the latest. This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so please refrain from installing it on your production ...

14 more reasons to download Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 today

May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016 05/6/16

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If you haven’t downloaded Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 yet, now is a good time to do so. In the latest KB we have addressed some of the top reported problems around performance and reliability. So far, we’ve made 14 fixes and updates, that address Visual Studio build fail issues, Visual Studio crashes, and improve memory usage by disabling ...

Top New from March 2016

May 4, 2016 May 4, 2016 05/4/16

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Yes, it might seem a bit odd to have a post with “March” in the title now that it’s already May, but it does take a few weeks for the data to show what you’ve all been reading about lately. So with no further ado, here are those recent highlights! Xamarin included with Visual Studio. As announced at //build 2016 to great applause, ...