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Visual Studio “14” CTP now available

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Visual Studio Blog
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...

Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013

May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14
Visual Studio Blog
Today, we’re releasing an update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 on the Visual Studio Gallery. In this release, we fixed a number of customer-reported bugs and issues, and introduced a new feature called syntactic line compression. Syntactic line compression enables you to make better use of your screen’s vertical real-estate. It...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here!

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to share that the final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is ready to download. If you are already using Visual Studio 2013 then you’ll soon have a notification waiting for you in the notification hub to start the download and install Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. If you haven’t started using Visual Studio 2013 you ...

Improving Setup in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014 05/1/14
Visual Studio Blog
A few weeks ago at the Build conference, we released a release candidate of the second update to Visual Studio 2013. This update of Visual Studio contained significant new functionality including being able to create Universal Apps for both Windows and Windows Phone. To be able to target Windows Phone, developers need to use emulators which ...

Enhancements to Debugging and Profiling in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

April 16, 2014 Apr 16, 2014 04/16/14
Daniel Moth
Less than a year ago, I gave you a quick overview of the many investments we made to debugging and profiling in Visual Studio 2013 RTM and got some great feedback from you about what we’d done. Now, with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC available for download, I wanted to run you through the enhancements we have made since last summer. We’ve...

Authoring Windows 8.1 Apps in XAML

April 15, 2014 Apr 15, 2014 04/15/14
Visual Studio Blog
At the BUILD conference last week, we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2. We have been busy improving the overall experience of XAML development in Visual Studio and Blend, and this post gives you an overview of some of the cool new features we have added to this Update that you ...