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Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
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IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and other development processes to execute in parallel over a distributed network. It works locally on your development box and over a build server, and can also make use of idle CPU cycles in other computers over the entire network. In addition, developers with ...

Visual Studio Update 1 RTM

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
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Today we’re releasing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Let me be the first to thank everyone who installed these earlier releases, provided feedback, and helped us iron out the kinks. [The final release of Team Foundation Server Update 1 is also available today, which you can read about on Brian Harry's blog.] I’ve already shared...

Latest Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015

November 23, 2015 Nov 23, 2015 11/23/15
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We’re pleased to announce that Update 1 for the Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015 is ready for you to install! This update includes a vocabulary change in our tools, Apps for Office and SharePoint are now known as Office and SharePoint Add-ins, and bug fixes, such as the Office/SharePoint node not appearing under Visual...

News and Announcements at Connect(); //2015

November 18, 2015 Nov 18, 2015 11/18/15
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Today we held the Connect(); //2015 event in New York, where we introduced many new products and features that we’ve been working on. In this post I’ll share the highlights with you, and you can watch the Connect(); event along with many additional on-demand videos on http://www.visualstudio.com/connect2015. Visual Studio Code ...

Visual Studio Update 1 RC

October 29, 2015 Oct 29, 2015 10/29/15
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Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, which builds on the Update 1 CTP we released three weeks ago. In addition to the features introduced in the CTP as described here, the Release Candidate includes the following: Go To Implementation. The feature many of you have been waiting for: just right-click on an interface or abstract ...

Writing and Using Custom Code in U-SQL – User-Defined Functions

October 28, 2015 Oct 28, 2015 10/28/15
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In my last blog post, I introduced U-SQL as the new Big Data query language for the Azure Data Lake that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. Today we are announcing the availability of the Azure Data Lake in public preview. You can now try U-SQL in Visual Studio and run it over massive amounts of data in the...

Top News for September 2015

October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15
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Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for September. Open-source, cross-platform MSBuild: Continuing the open-source, cross-platform .NET story that is already well underway with .NET Core and the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), MSBuild is joining the fun as...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP

October 8, 2015 Oct 8, 2015 10/8/15
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Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 CTP. Included, you’ll find: Edit and Continue support for /BigObj in C++, which means you can now Edit and Continue while debugging Windows Store C++ projects. The C# interactive window in Visual Studio and the command-line C# REPL tool: Scripting APIs for C# and Visual Basic ...

How Visual Studio gives Halfbrick ninja powers

October 5, 2015 Oct 5, 2015 10/5/15
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For this post we welcome Nicholas Cornelius and Miguel Pastor from Halfbrick as guest authors on the Visual Studio Blog. Halfbrick games, including Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, are released on multi platforms. To minimize per-platform overhead, our games are written primarily in C++ with only small portions of platform-specific code ...

IntelliTest for .NET – Test More with Less (effort)

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
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Writing a suit of unit tests that exhaustively exercise and validate the logic of the code under test is not easy. It can even be considered too expensive to do at all. Fortunately, the IntelliTest feature shipping in the Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise Edition addresses both concerns: it helps you achieve high code coverage at a fraction of the...