{"id":3911,"date":"2015-10-06T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2015\/10\/06\/now-available-visual-studio-tools-for-apache-cordova-update-3\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T06:50:14","slug":"now-available-visual-studio-tools-for-apache-cordova-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/now-available-visual-studio-tools-for-apache-cordova-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Now available: Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, we released <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2015\/09\/16\/wintools-1-1-typescript-1-6-rtm-and-tools-for-apache-cordova-updates.aspx\">Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 2<\/a>. Last week, we introduced you to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/visualstudio\/archive\/2015\/10\/01\/announcing-tools-for-apache-cordova-aka-taco-v1-0-0.aspx\">TACO CLI<\/a>. Now we&rsquo;re back with Update 3, which is automatically included when you install Visual Studio 2015. If you&rsquo;re an existing user of Visual Studio 2015, you&rsquo;ll receive a <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dn986852.aspx\">notification<\/a> to download and install today.<\/p>\n<p>This release significantly improves the tools&rsquo; stability by fixing 13 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/tags\/visual-studio-cordova\">top issues reported on Stack Overflow<\/a>. Here are three of the most notable changes reported by developers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Addresses blocking issue when trying to use the Tools for Apache Cordova along with the ASP.NET 5 Beta 7 release.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/32575903\/visual-studio-tools-for-apache-cordova-error-when-creating-or-opening-project\/32624445\">First reported<\/a> by &ldquo;Pablo Martinez&rdquo;) <br \/><em>Previously, after installing ASP.NET 5 Beta 7, Cordova projects would fail when opening with an error message that says &ldquo;An equivalent project (a project with the same global properties and tools version) is already present in the project collection&hellip;&rdquo; <\/em> <br \/><em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Deploying to Windows Phone 8 devices now works when emulators are not installed.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/31617080\/vs2015-rtm-cannot-deploy-application-on-windows-phone-with-build-target-windows\">First reported<\/a> by &ldquo;ando&rdquo;) <br \/><em>Before this fix, Visual Studio showed an error saying that &ldquo;no emulators are installed&rdquo; and stopped deploying to the device. <br \/><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>When working on an app for Android devices, an issue was fixed that caused a &ldquo;could not reserve enough space for object heap&rdquo; error.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/30827160\/visual-studio-2015-rc-cordova-could-not-reserve-enough-space-for-object-heap\">First reported<\/a> by &ldquo;SpaMobile&rdquo;) <br \/><em>Without this fix, an &ldquo;Error occurred during initialization of VM; Could not reserve enough space for object heap&rdquo; message appeared when using the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, targeting Android devices.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What&rsquo;s next?<\/h2>\n<p>We&rsquo;re hard at work already on the next update to the tools and we&rsquo;ll see you back here on the blog soon. Thanks to everyone who&rsquo;s been asking and answering questions on <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/tags\/visual-studio-cordova\">Stack Overflow<\/a> (using the <em>visual-studio-cordova<\/em> tag) and we look forward to continuing to work with you there!<\/p>\n<p>To stay up to date on these updates, news in the Cordova world, and more, follow us on Twitter (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vscordovatools\">@VSCordovaTools<\/a>). And as always, feel free to email us with your feedback (vscordovatools &ndash;at- microsoft.com), we enjoy hearing from you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"122\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/4628.clip_image002_thumb_38BD8234.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-width: 0px\" title=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/10\/4628.clip_image002_thumb_38BD8234.jpg\" alt=\"clip_image002\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"489\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 15px\"><strong>Jordan Matthiesen<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JMatthiesen\">@JMatthiesen<\/a>) <br \/>Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 15px\">Jordan works at Microsoft on JavaScript tooling for web and mobile application developers. He&rsquo;s been a developer for over 17 years, and currently focuses on talking to as many awesome mobile developers as possible. When not working on dev tools, you&rsquo;ll find him enjoying quality time with his wife, 4 kids, 2 dogs, 1 cat, and a cup of coffee.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago, we released Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 2. Last week, we introduced you to a new TACO CLI. Now we&rsquo;re back with Update 3, which is automatically included when you install Visual Studio 2015. If you&rsquo;re an existing user of Visual Studio 2015, you&rsquo;ll receive a notification to download and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":255385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4980,1028,155,1029],"tags":[237,85,197,376,124,553,274,125,12,196],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-java","category-mobile","category-visual-studio","category-web","tag-net","tag-asp-net","tag-cordova","tag-java","tag-javascript","tag-mobile","tag-tools-for-apache-cordova","tag-typescript","tag-visual-studio","tag-visual-studio-2015"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Three weeks ago, we released Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 2. Last week, we introduced you to a new TACO CLI. Now we&rsquo;re back with Update 3, which is automatically included when you install Visual Studio 2015. If you&rsquo;re an existing user of Visual Studio 2015, you&rsquo;ll receive a notification to download and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}