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Tag : Visual Studio 2015

Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1

September 8, 2015 Sep 8, 2015 09/8/15
Visual Studio Blog
A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. If you don’t already know about the Visual Studio Tools for Unity, check out the Visual Studio Tools ...

Visual Studio 2015 FAQ

August 7, 2015 Aug 7, 2015 08/7/15
Visual Studio Blog
Since we released Visual Studio 2015 on July 20th we’ve been busily answering questions on our forums, here on the blog, on Connect, and on StackOverflow. Here are some of the common questions. Install / Setup Licensing / Purchase Tools / Features Install / Setup 1. Why is my setup taking so...

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

July 31, 2015 Jul 31, 2015 07/31/15
Visual Studio Blog
[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 Customer Feedback Channels

July 30, 2015 Jul 30, 2015 07/30/15
Visual Studio Blog
We’ve shipped Visual Studio 2015 RTM and you have all been a key part of this with your feedback and great ideas, Thank you! But wait, that doesn’t mean your job is over :). We still need to hear from you about what is good, bad, or ugly in VS 2015 so we can know what to do more of, what to fix, and what to avoid. We look at EVERY ...

Targeting Windows 10 with your Apache Cordova app

July 29, 2015 Jul 29, 2015 07/29/15
Visual Studio Blog
This April, in concert with Windows 10 Technical Preview 2, we debuted support for the Windows 10 platform for Apache Cordova. Now, with the availability of Windows 10, full Windows 10 support is part of the Windows Apache Cordova platform and native to Visual Studio 2015.  Apache Cordova allows you to write apps targeting iOS, Android, ...

The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
Visual Studio Blog
One of the unique values Visual Studio provides is that over and above the built-in features we have a multitude of extensions to address various niche development scenarios. These extensions are provided by our strong partner ecosystem. The Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem is the strongest it has ever been in the history of Visual Studio. This...

Visual Studio 2015 Diagnostics Investments

July 23, 2015 Jul 23, 2015 07/23/15
Daniel Moth
When we wrapped up the last release of Visual Studio, I wrote a blog post titled: Visual Studio 2013 Diagnostics Investments, which gathered all the links to our blog posts and other content into a single place. It seems fitting to do the same now that VS2015 has RTM’d, and the same intro I wrote last time applies, so I won’t ...

Identity Management Features in Visual Studio 2015

July 22, 2015 Jul 22, 2015 07/22/15
Visual Studio Blog
In Visual Studio 2015 we have made radical changes to sign in experiences and connecting to your online resources. You can now chose to use a single account across many developer services, or use multiple accounts across Visual Studio. All of this is possible because of the new Visual Studio Account Manager. The account manager makes every ...