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Join us this November for Connect(); 2016

Visual Studio BlogOctober 5, 2016Oct 5, 201610/5/16

Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to save the date for what promises to be our best Connect(); yet. At Connect(); 2016, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Principal Program

On the Road to Release: Redesigning Visual Studio Installation

Visual Studio BlogJune 17, 2016Jun 17, 201606/17/16

For those of you who have been closely tracking the progress of our next release of Visual Studio (codenamed Visual Studio “15”), you’ll know that one of our big product release themes is installation and update. We are refactoring our installation to be smaller by default, faster and more reliable, and easier to manage, as described in

New Pluralsight Courses for Visual Studio Subscribers Coming in July 2016

Visual Studio BlogJune 14, 2016Jun 14, 201606/14/16

We’re refreshing the Pluralsight course list for Visual Studio subscribers on July 1, 2016! As you may know, Pluralsight is a benefit included with your Visual Studio (MSDN) Subscription. They are a global leader in high-quality online training for developers. Pluralsight provides on-demand access to rich collection of expert-led courses, t

Visual Studio TACO Update 10

Visual Studio BlogJune 7, 2016Jun 7, 201606/7/16

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 J

Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RC

Visual Studio BlogJune 7, 2016Jun 7, 201606/7/16

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 e

Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available

John MontgomeryMarch 30, 2016Mar 30, 201603/30/16

At Build 2016 we shared a preview of the next version of Visual Studio, which we call Visual Studio “15” (not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015). The download is available here. This is a Preview and is unsupported, so please refrain from installing it on your production environments. This preview lays a lot of groundwork for vNext

Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio

John LamMarch 22, 2016Mar 22, 201603/22/16

R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is rarely the program itself. Instead, they produce reports or presentations from the results generated by their R program to help influence or driv

Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2

Visual Studio BlogJanuary 27, 2016Jan 27, 201601/27/16

In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, and a little more. Connect(); //2015: Our second Connect(); event was, to my mind, even more impressive than the fi

Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5

Visual Studio BlogJanuary 21, 2016Jan 21, 201601/21/16

Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new developer blog that you can follow to keep up to date with tips, tricks, and articles from our development team.New in Visual Stud

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

Visual Studio BlogOctober 28, 2015Oct 28, 201510/28/15

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

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