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BUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5

Visual Studio Blog April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

[UPDATED 8/5] Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, and .NET 4.6 were released on 7/20/2015. Check out this post announcing VS 2015 and VS 2013 Update 5 and this one announcing .NET framework 4.6. [Original Post] The Microsoft BUILD conference is typically a time when we release a lot of developer tools. This year we ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP Released

Visual Studio Blog February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15

[UPDATED 8/5] Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, and .NET 4.6 were released on 7/20/2015. Check out this post announcing VS 2015 and VS 2013 Update 5 and this one announcing .NET framework 4.6. [Original Post] Keeping with the quick cadence of releases, I’m happy to share Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6. ...

Azure Virtual Machine Images for Visual Studio

Visual Studio Blog January 8, 2015 Jan 8, 2015 01/8/15

Over the last year we have been constantly expanding our Visual Studio image offerings for the Microsoft Azure virtual machine gallery. The images have proven to be very popular not only for evaluating new Visual Studio releases but also for using them as developer environments in the cloud. In this post we’ll walk you through all the images...

Connecting to Cloud Services

Visual Studio Blog November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14

Modern applications often rely on services for analytics, data storage and retrieval, and customer information. It’s increasingly common to see applications that blend together services such as Salesforce with Azure Storage and a couple of analytics services such as Application Insights or Flurry. While these services provide usable REST ...

Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013

Visual Studio Blog May 23, 2014 May 23, 2014 05/23/14

Today, we’re releasing an update to Productivity Power Tools 2013 on the Visual Studio Gallery. In this release, we fixed a number of customer-reported bugs and issues, and introduced a new feature called syntactic line compression. Syntactic line compression enables you to make better use of your screen’s vertical real-estate. It ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here!

Visual Studio Blog May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14

We’re excited to share that the final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is ready to download. If you are already using Visual Studio 2013 then you’ll soon have a notification waiting for you in the notification hub to start the download and install Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. If you haven’t started using Visual ...

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 now available for Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Blog March 31, 2014 Mar 31, 2014 03/31/14

As announced recently on the Windows Embedded blog, the Windows Embedded Compact 2013 product is now generally available. This update release includes integration to the latest Visual Studio 2013 through updated platform builder and application builder, inbox WiFi device driver for TI SDP44xx and debugging features. Visual Studio 2013 provides...

Auto History Extension in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Blog January 23, 2014 Jan 23, 2014 01/23/14

Have you ever found yourself wishing you could roll back a few hours to a piece of code you had working but have made changes to? You were “in the flow” and you haven’t checked anything in to your source control system (or perhaps weren’t using source code control on your project)? We are pleased to announce the ...

Windows Azure SDK 2.2 Release

Visual Studio Blog October 23, 2013 Oct 23, 2013 10/23/13

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 ...

LightSwitch Performance Win in Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio Blog October 9, 2013 Oct 9, 2013 10/9/13

With the release of Visual Studio 2013 RC, we on the LightSwitch Team have made some changes in how much bandwidth our HTML Client and Server use when communicating. Let’s take a look at what we did and how it can be useful to both developers and users of LightSwitch applications. A Slimmer ODATA Format LightSwitch uses a REST-based ...

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