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Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta 2 Available

July 23, 2014 Jul 23, 2014 07/23/14
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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...

Visual Studio “14” CTP 2 Available

July 8, 2014 Jul 8, 2014 07/8/14
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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...

Visual Studio Web Development Survey

July 7, 2014 Jul 7, 2014 07/7/14
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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 ...

Visual Studio “14” CTP now available

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...