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Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today during the Connect(); 2016 event we announced the availability of the release candidate of the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Thank you to those who tried out the pre-builds and previews and provided feedback. Your feedback always plays an important role in the successful release of Visual Studio. ...

Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

October 5, 2016 Oct 5, 2016 10/5/16
John Montgomery
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains we’ve seen. I’m also going to point out some of the productivity enhancements we’ve made. So kick off the installer here and ...

Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts

August 15, 2016 Aug 15, 2016 08/15/16
Visual Studio Blog
You've told us that Visual Studio makes you sign in WAY too often. Over the last year, we've released several improvements to help address your feedback. The keychain we released with Visual Studio 2015 made it possible to manage multiple identities in VS and gave you single sign-on across the IDE. In the last few updates, we’ve made changes...

Create high quality mobile apps with Ionic & Visual Studio

August 3, 2016 Aug 3, 2016 08/3/16
Jordan Matthiesen
Are you a web developer building mobile applications today? Are you considering joining the ranks of web developers moving beyond the mobile web to mobile app development? If so, then we have a treat for you – a new set of Visual Studio templates, building on top of the Apache Cordova platform, Ionic UI framework, and using the TypeScript ...

Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio 2015 released

July 28, 2016 Jul 28, 2016 07/28/16
Visual Studio Blog
What time is it?! Time to announce that our next stable release of Node.js Tools 1.2 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is available for download! NTVS 1.2 supports Visual Studio 2015 (including the free Visual Studio Community Edition and Express for Web). With Node.js Tools for Visual Studio, we strive to make it easier than ever to build enterprise-...

Visual Studio “15” Preview 3

July 7, 2016 Jul 7, 2016 07/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today I am happy to share Visual Studio “15” Preview 3 (which is different from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3). This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so my recommendation is to not install it on your production environments. That said, it should install right on top of any previous Visual Studio “15” Previews and side by side with ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and .NET Core 1.0 Available Now

June 27, 2016 Jun 27, 2016 06/27/16
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATED July 15th – New patch is now available to fix some top bugs in Update 3. Check Update July 15th tag] [UPDATED June 30th – See update tag within the post for details] Today we are sharing the final release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3, and .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0. I’m going to ...

Apache Cordova & the browser based workflow

June 16, 2016 Jun 16, 2016 06/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
Apache Cordova applications leverage HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create mobile applications that run across multiple device platforms including Android, iOS, and Windows. Today, the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) support in Visual Studio helps you get up and running quickly using Cordova. Cordova developers are web developers, ...

Visual Studio TACO Update 10

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
We are proud to present Update 10 of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). You can look forward to installing it with Update 3 of Visual Studio 2015, or download and install it directly now. If this is the first time you’ve heard of TACO, try our beginner’s guide and build your first app for Android, iOS and Windows, with ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today we are sharing Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC. This release candidate primarily focuses on stability, performance, and bug fixes, but we also have some feature updates. I’ll share highlights in the rest of this post. Tools for Apache Cordova. This update includes TACO Update 9 and TACO Update 10, which adds plugins for Intune, Azure ...

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