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Using Visual Studio to build Universal XAML Apps

April 14, 2014 Apr 14, 2014 04/14/14
Visual Studio Blog
At the Build conference, we announced the release of the new converged Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 platforms. As a developer, this means you can now build XAML and HTML universal apps that run on both Phone and Tablets by sharing a significant amount of code and content. To enable building universal apps, we added a number of new ...

Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14
Visual Studio Blog
Last week at the BUILD conference, we announced that you can now build apps for Windows Phone 8.1 using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using much the same techniques you use for building Windows 8.1 Store apps today. To help you build these apps, we’ve made many improvements to Visual Studio 2013 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013. In this post, we...

Visually Creating Snippets

January 15, 2014 Jan 15, 2014 01/15/14
Visual Studio Blog
Get the new Snippetizer DevLabs Extension here Snippets are a fun and easy way to quickly add code into your app. Snippets are commonly used, small blocks of code that represent a particular action or pattern that developers find useful, ranging from simple try-finally or if-else to entire classes or methods. To insert a code snippets you ...

Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2013

December 19, 2013 Dec 19, 2013 12/19/13
Visual Studio Blog
Those following the Visual Studio 2013 launch may have noticed that we've taken your UserVoice feedback seriously and brought more Productivity Power Tools into the core Visual Studio experience. We selected the all-time favorites: Enhanced Scrollbar, Move-line and Brace Completion; polished and improved them for prime-time. Once we wrapped...

Updates to Editor Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013

October 31, 2013 Oct 31, 2013 10/31/13
Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 2013 we have added many new features to the editor. To get a low down on how these features can help enhance productivity checkout our previous post on Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features as well as What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 – IDE on MSDN. Today, we want to share updates to these features that you will see in ...

Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio

July 26, 2013 Jul 26, 2013 07/26/13
Visual Studio Blog
In a previous post , we shared the new Windows Azure Mobile Services integration and capabilities in Visual Studio 2013. These include the ability to edit your Mobile Services table scripts. In this post, we describe how you can enable IntelliSense on your server side scripts in Visual Studio. This is a capability that isn’t integrated in ...

MSBuild is now part of Visual Studio!

July 24, 2013 Jul 24, 2013 07/24/13
Visual Studio Blog
We made a number of exciting changes to MSBuild for Visual Studio 2013, including rethinking the fundamental relationship between MSBuild, Visual Studio, and the .NET Framework. MSBuild has shipped as a component of the .NET framework since it was first introduced in 2005 with .NET 2.0, despite the fact that it is, first and foremost, a ...

Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments

July 18, 2013 Jul 18, 2013 07/18/13
Daniel Moth
this post, and the posts it links to have been updated for VS 2013 RTM - enjoy! Hi, I am Daniel Moth, a Program Manager in Visual Studio. I don’t know about you, but I usually spend more time (and more fun time in fact!) in the debugger than I do in actually constructing my app. Perhaps that is the reason I also work on the Visual Studio...

Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features

July 15, 2013 Jul 15, 2013 07/15/13
Visual Studio Blog
[10/31/2013 : Updates to these features can be found in the latest post on Updates to Visual Studio 2013 Editor Enhancements] In Visual Studio 2013, we have introduced new features that boost productivity and save time when working inside the Editor. Some of these are new features and some are the most popular extensions from Productivity ...

Visual Studio Performance – Providing Feedback

July 2, 2013 Jul 2, 2013 07/2/13
Visual Studio Blog
With VS 2013 Preview now available for download, we’re excited to share how we’ve been using the feedback and data you’ve shared with us to drive performance improvements to Visual Studio.   In this first post, we’ll walk through how we’re prioritizing and scheduling performance investments based on your feedback, and outline the ...