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Announcing Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update

March 3, 2014 Mar 3, 2014 03/3/14
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Today at SharePoint Conference 2014, we are thrilled to announce that Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is available to download! The March 2014 Update ships with a ton of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013. Download the ...

Visually Creating Snippets

January 15, 2014 Jan 15, 2014 01/15/14
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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 ...

Visual Studio Survey: How do you develop for multiple form factors?

January 7, 2014 Jan 7, 2014 01/7/14
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This is your chance to influence the next major release of Visual Studio. If you build applications that target multiple devices or form factors (e.g. a single application consumed on phone, tablet and desktop), we want to hear from you. Your input will be used to shape new features planned to streamline application development -- especially ...

Visual Studio Updates – Survey

November 22, 2013 Nov 22, 2013 11/22/13
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Hi folks.With Visual Studio 2012 we started the Visual Studio Update program - releasing regular (nearly quarterly) public updates that contained both new features and servicing fixes. To date we’ve released four Updates, and the latest Update for Visual Studio 2012 can be downloaded from the Visual Studio Updates page. To capture the ...

Visual Studio 2013 Survey

November 19, 2013 Nov 19, 2013 11/19/13
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On October 17th 2013, we announced the General Availability (GA) of Visual Studio 2013. We would like to thank everyone who took the time to share their thoughts while testing the pre-releases of Visual Studio 2013. While we read and consider all feedback from our community (Connect, UserVoice and Send-a-Smile), as with most development ...

Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Release

October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13
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Yesterday we announced the release of the Windows Azure SDK version 2.2 for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. This release includes several new highly requested customer features like Integrated Sign In, Remote Debugging preview, Edit and Continue for Cloud Services, SQL Databases in Server Explorer, and Publishing Cloud Services to Affinity ...

Visual Studio Start Page: Through the ages

October 2, 2013 Oct 2, 2013 10/2/13
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When we started planning the first truly integrated version of Visual Studio (prior to that Visual Studio was predominantly a collection of tools boxed together) we wanted to help developers get started with the new version. To do this we introduce a common start page for Visual Studio. Visual Studio.NET (image) Figure 1 Visual...

Notifications in Visual Studio 2013

September 16, 2013 Sep 16, 2013 09/16/13
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One of the benefits to having a connected IDE is that your environment can be kept up to date easily by presenting you with notifications of updates and relevant account information. Visual Studio will not only keep your environment up to date but also keep you in control of your preferred configurations. There are two main avenues for ...

Enabling IntelliSense for Mobile Services JavaScript in Visual Studio

July 26, 2013 Jul 26, 2013 07/26/13
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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
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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 ...