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Top News from March 2015

April 2, 2015 Apr 2, 2015 04/2/15
Visual Studio Blog
It’s a pattern only if you see it happen at least twice, so here is our second post in the monthly top news series. This month again we looked at various content across the developer sphere and bring you what we think are some of the top stories. We hope you find this list useful and interesting; and of course we welcome your feedback...

Visual Studio Upcoming Features Timeline

March 26, 2015 Mar 26, 2015 03/26/15
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATE: 7/20/2015] You asked for it and you got it! We’ve added a Planned Date column on the VS Feature Timeline that will share quarter-year or half-year timeframes. Of course, these are subject to change but once we know the timeframe that a feature will ship in, you’ll know. (image) [ORIGINAL POST] Over the past few years, Visual ...

Updated ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

March 26, 2015 Mar 26, 2015 03/26/15
Visual Studio Blog
If you use the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, you know that our long-time Visual Studio partner DevExpress maintains it, and that it’s free and open-source. Recently they released an updated and improved ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. You can download this new version here: devexpress.com/act In a short time that they have taken over the ...

Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio

March 25, 2015 Mar 25, 2015 03/25/15
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATE] We have updated this post. Look for an [UPDATE] tag to find the updates.  Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE. NTVS 1.0 supports the free Visual Studio Community ...

Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15
Unni Ravindranathan
Today we announced the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Windows 10 Preview. These tools enable you to build Windows universal apps that run across all Windows 10 devices from Windows Phone to Xbox and Windows Store. In addition, you can also use these tools to build desktop Win32 apps that leverage Windows 10 APIs. You can read more in this blog ...

Connect(“Live”); // WPF Team Live Q & A

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15
Visual Studio Blog
(image) It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters. If you missed it, don’t worry. You can watch all the videos on-demand over at the dotnetConf 2015 Channel 9 page. ...

Top News from February 2015

March 5, 2015 Mar 5, 2015 03/5/15
Visual Studio Blog
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as part of the process we gain insights into what you enjoy through your retweets, Facebook likes and shares, and other public opinions of our ...