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Visual Studio “14” CTP now available

June 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 06/3/14
Visual Studio Blog
Today we released Visual Studio “14” CTP, an early preview of the next version of Visual Studio. You can find the Visual Studio and .NET release announcements on Soma's blog. We’re pretty early on in development, but wanted to start to show some of the new features we’re thinking about and get feedback. To get started, downloadthe CTP...

Announcing Update to Productivity Power Tools 2013

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

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
Visual Studio Blog
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 Studio 2013 you ...

Building Windows Phone 8.1 Apps in HTML

April 8, 2014 Apr 8, 2014 04/8/14
Visual Studio Blog
Last week at the BUILD conference, we announced that you can now build apps for Windows Phone 8.1 using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using much the same techniques you use for building Windows 8.1 Store apps today. To help you build these apps, we’ve made many improvements to Visual Studio 2013 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013. In this post, we...

The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
Visual Studio Blog
Release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is now available to download. This update supports TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM as well as the Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platform releases announced yesterday. Checkout Somasegar’s blog where he talks about these new releases, the .NET Native preview release, TypeScript 1.0 and more...

Windows Embedded Compact 2013 now available for Visual Studio 2013

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

Blend for HTML Behaviors and Actions

March 13, 2014 Mar 13, 2014 03/13/14
Visual Studio Blog
Blend for Visual Studio 2013 introduces a feature to HTML developers that may be familiar to those who already work with XAML: Behaviors. When attached to HTML elements, Behaviors add life to an application by executing a JavaScript event handler. Developers can choose from a wide variety of ready-to-use Behaviors or create their own. For ...

Visual Studio Online early adoption period extended!

February 28, 2014 Feb 28, 2014 02/28/14
Visual Studio Blog
When we announced Visual Studio Online back in November of 2013 , we wanted to thank all those developers who trusted the service from the beginning—ever since the early Team Foundation Service bits were deployed. That’s why we decided that all of the Visual Studio Online early adopters should enjoy the service without limitation until ...