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New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016

April 7, 2016 Apr 7, 2016 04/7/16
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It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio ecosystem. We added over 100 extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll ...

New and Noteworthy Extensions for Visual Studio – March 2016

April 7, 2016 Apr 7, 2016 04/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
It was great to see the excitement around last month’s post and I heard from many of you that you have discovered some new extensions. March has been another great month for the Visual Studio ecosystem. We added over 100 extensions to the Visual Studio Gallery. To help you enjoy this creativity from the community, every month or two I’ll ...

10 things you should try on the leap day

February 17, 2016 Feb 17, 2016 02/17/16
Visual Studio Blog
It’s February 2016 and so those of us on the Gregorian calendar get to enjoy an extra day in the month! What will you do in those 24 bonus hours? How about learning some new tools and technologies? Here are ten great suggestions—OK, eleven! It is a leap year, so it’s a leap list: Get your code hosted for free in ...

Find Your Favorite Visual Studio Extension

February 11, 2016 Feb 11, 2016 02/11/16
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One of the greatest strengths of Visual Studio is the vibrancy of the partner ecosystem that surrounds it. There are thousands of extensions available for Visual Studio that enhance the editor experience, support new languages, add time-saving components to your toolbox, and integrate with other developer services. In the last year alone, over...

Top News for August 2015

September 14, 2015 Sep 14, 2015 09/14/15
Visual Studio Blog
Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for August. DevOps tops the list this month! Brian Harry leads the way with his announcement on Visual Studio Online’s September pricing and licensing changes (short read: a new less expensive, tiered pricing model went into ...

Roaming Extension Manager: Control and Consistency down to the last Extension

July 31, 2015 Jul 31, 2015 07/31/15
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[UPDATED 7/31] On 7/31 we released an update to the extension. This update includes notifications for extensions, and a change in the UI where the status icons (installed / roaming) are on the left. [Original Post] On July 28th, we released Roaming Extension Manager, an extension that will help you better manage your Visual Studio extensions...

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

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
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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 ...