{"id":5341,"date":"2016-03-03T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:39:05","slug":"visual-studio-2015-update-2-rc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2015-update-2-rc\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the next set of reliability and performance improvements in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/downloads\/update2-prereleases\">Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC<\/a>, which also addresses issues that we hear from your continued feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Building on what <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/2016\/02\/10\/visual-studio-2015-update-2-ctp\/\">we announced with the CTP release<\/a>, here\u2019s what you\u2019ll find in Update 2 RC:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Issues we\u2019ve fixed:\n<ul>\n<li>Errors in the NuGet Package Manager Console that failed with \u201cA task was canceled.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Crashes due to null and\/or invalid pointer reads.<\/li>\n<li>Crashes some customers have encountered when opening a solution.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced licensing failures and more actionable information when failures occur.<\/li>\n<li>C++ projects load faster with improvements in UI delays.<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of MSBuild warning MSB3644 (\u201cThe reference assemblies for framework {0} were not found\u201d) to error status so incorrect target frameworks that give rise to this error will break a build.<\/li>\n<li>Correction of problems in Visual Studio with ASP.NET after installing Update 2 CTP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>C\/C++ runtime library performance: we\u2019ve improved the performance of a number of common operations. For example, extracting floating point numbers with iostreams is up to nineteen times faster. Certain string operations are also faster, especially <i>std::string::replace<\/i> when replacing same-sized substrings. Give it a try and let us know if you notice a difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As with the CTP, we\u2019ve continued to ship additional features as covered fully in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/vs2015-update2-vs\">release notes<\/a>, such as NuGet 3.4 and C#\/Visual Basic refactoring to make methods synchronous. A couple of others include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visual Studio now shows Git SCC status in the status bar, and jumping to Changes, Sync, and Connect pages are just a single click away. This is all extensible by third party SCC providers.<\/li>\n<li>Visual Studio now supports consuming TextMate snippets with IntelliSense completion by placing tmSnippet files into a snippet folder.<\/li>\n<li>Improvements to the Application Insights search experience with the ability to jump to the code where a telemetry event was emitting, a search for related items, and a new experience to log data from apps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, check the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/vs2015-update2-vs\">Description of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC<\/a>\u00a0for all the details.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also released <a href=\"\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/downloads\/update2-prereleases\">Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2 RC 2<\/a> today. You can see what\u2019s new there in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/news\/tfs2015-update2-vs\">TFS Update 2 RC 2 release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we welcome your feedback. For problems, let us know via the <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/mt280277.aspx\">Send Feedback option<\/a> (Send a Smile) in Visual Studio. For suggestions, let us know through <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\">UserVoice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 600px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"152\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-width: 0px\" title=\"John Montgomery\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/03\/clip_image0032-3.jpg\" alt=\"John Montgomery\" width=\"145\" height=\"176\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"448\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 15px\"><b>John Montgomery<\/b> is the Director of Program Management for Visual Studio, responsible for product design and customer success for all of Visual Studio, C++, C#, VB, JavaScript, and .NET. John has been at Microsoft for 17 years, working in developer technologies the whole time. Reach him on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMont\">@JohnMont<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we released the next set of reliability and performance improvements in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, which also addresses issues that we hear from your continued feedback. 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