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

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Visual Studio Blog
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...

Introducing U-SQL – A Language that makes Big Data Processing Easy

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15
Visual Studio Blog
Microsoft announced the new Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud that includes a hyper-scale repository, a new analytics service built on YARN that allows data developers and data scientists to analyze all data, and HDInsight, a fully managed Hadoop, Spark, Storm and HBase service. Azure Data Lake Analytics includes U-SQL, a ...

A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
Visual Studio Blog
Summer 2015 has come and gone (in the northern hemisphere at least!), and four releases of ASP.NET have hit the internet in that time. With the Visual Studio 2015 release in July the team released ASP.NET 4.6, a major update for our ASP.NET frameworks and tooling. Additionally, ASP.NET 5 beta 5 was released with Visual Studio 2015 so that ...

Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1

September 8, 2015 Sep 8, 2015 09/8/15
Visual Studio Blog
A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. If you don’t already know about the Visual Studio Tools for Unity, check out the Visual Studio Tools ...

Introduction to Debugging

August 11, 2015 Aug 11, 2015 08/11/15
Visual Studio Blog
Whenever those of us in Visual Studio give talks or write blog posts about debugging, we typically focus on tips and tricks and new features that take for granted you already know the basics of debugging. The problem with this is like most things in life debugging is a skill you have to learn before you can take advantage of tips and tricks. ...

Top News from July 2015

August 10, 2015 Aug 10, 2015 08/10/15
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for July. Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download. Within the Visual Studio team, we’re clearly delighted with the release of Visual Studio 2015 as Soma announces on his blog! This release fulfills the promises we ...

Visual Studio 2015 FAQ

August 7, 2015 Aug 7, 2015 08/7/15
Visual Studio Blog
Since we released Visual Studio 2015 on July 20th we’ve been busily answering questions on our forums, here on the blog, on Connect, and on StackOverflow. Here are some of the common questions. Install / Setup Licensing / Purchase Tools / Features Install / Setup 1. Why is my setup taking so...

Why write Python in Visual Studio?

August 3, 2015 Aug 3, 2015 08/3/15
Visual Studio Blog
Recently, Visual Studio 2015 was released with support for Python. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) are available to help throughout Visual Studio in all the places you’d expect, from editing and IntelliSense, to debugging, profiling, and publishing to Azure. You can find all the details and some video walkthroughs, documentation, ...

Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostics Investments

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Daniel Moth
When we wrapped up the last release of Visual Studio, I wrote a blog post titled: Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments, which gathered all the links to our blog posts and other content into a single place. It seems fitting to do the same now that VS2015 has RTM’d, and the same intro I wrote last time applies, so I won’t ...

Visual Studio 2015 RTM: What’s New in the IDE

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2015 was released yesterday. Throughout the prereleases, you've seen some major announcements, from the new VS 2015 product lineup introducing Visual Studio Enterprise and Visual Studio Code, to the release of a free Visual Studio Community Edition with support for VS extensions. We've listened to your feedback on these products ...