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Connect(“Live”); – Debugging and Cloud Diagnostics Visual Studio Team Q&A

February 25, 2015 Feb 25, 2015 02/25/15
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(image) One of the best parts of my job as a Product Manager in the Visual Studio team is working on events for you, our community. Last year in November I worked on one such event called Connect(); where we announced a ton of releases such as Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, .NET open source and much ...

Using AngularJS in Visual Studio 2013

February 5, 2015 Feb 5, 2015 02/5/15
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We continually strive to make the JavaScript editing experience better, part of this is providing support for popular libraries and patterns used by developers. AngularJS is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries and you’ve asked for even better support for it in Visual Studio. This post illustrates how to improve your experience ...

Survey: Tell us about your first experience with the Tools for Apache Cordova

February 2, 2015 Feb 2, 2015 02/2/15
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Even though we recently released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, we are already busy working on the next series of improvements to help you more easily build Android, iOS, and Windows apps. For an upcoming release, one of the areas we are looking to improve is the overall experience around installing the tools and ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released

January 26, 2015 Jan 26, 2015 01/26/15
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Today we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2, adding support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and making fixes in the IDE, Team Foundation Server, and Git support. The release notes have the complete list of features and fixes. As always, please give us your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15
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Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major release, this CTP is another opportunity for you to provide us with feedback as we make progress towards releasing. You can read about the new ...

Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova and the remote mac agent

January 12, 2015 Jan 12, 2015 01/12/15
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At the Connect(); event, we showed yet more of what we’re doing to enable developers to use Apache Cordova. Cordova is a framework you can use to build hybrid mobile apps that work across modern mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and others. Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can create applications that take advantage of ...

Azure Virtual Machine Images for Visual Studio

January 8, 2015 Jan 8, 2015 01/8/15
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Over the last year we have been constantly expanding our Visual Studio image offerings for the Microsoft Azure virtual machine gallery. The images have proven to be very popular not only for evaluating new Visual Studio releases but also for using them as developer environments in the cloud. In this post we’ll walk you through all the images...