{"id":7275,"date":"2016-07-07T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=7275"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:38:47","slug":"visual-studio-15-preview-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-15-preview-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio &#8220;15&#8221; Preview 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am happy to share <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=746567\">Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview 3<\/a> (which is different from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3). This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so my recommendation is to not install it on your production environments. That said, it should install right on top of any previous Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Previews and side by side with previous versions of Visual Studio. Here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/releasenotes\/vs15-relnotes\">Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview Release Notes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vs-knownissues\/vs15-preview3\">Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview 3 Known Issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re still laying some of the foundational groundwork, but we do have some new features, including some improvements in IntelliSense to help you filter the member list by type and a new Exception helper that gives you instant non-modal view in to inner exceptions. The IntelliSense tray is disabled by default but can be easily turned on in Tools &gt; Options. &gt; Text Editor &gt; C#\/VB &gt; IntelliSense. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2016\/07\/13\/visual-studio-15-preview-3-for-c-and-visual-basic\/\">Kasey Uhlenhuth&#8217;s post detailing the C# and VB improvements<\/a>. Preview 3 also includes Xamarin 4.1, which includes bug fixes as well as support for tvOS and improved iOS Assets Catalog support. For more information, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.xamarin.com\/releases\/vs\/xamarin.vs_4\/xamarin.vs_4.1\/\">Xamarin release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we released Team Foundation Server \u201c15\u201d Preview today. You can find details on this release in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/news\/releasenotes\/tfs15-relnotes\">TFS \u201c15\u201d release notes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vs-knownissues\/tfs15-preview3\">TFS \u201c15\u201d known issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/clip_image0024.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border: 0px\" title=\"clip_image002\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/07\/clip_image002_thumb4.png\" alt=\"clip_image002\" width=\"486\" height=\"276\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are also working on upgrading our feedback systems. Try the report a problem feature in the IDE to see what we\u2019ve done, then look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/community.visualstudio.com\/index.html\">web portal<\/a> view.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we welcome your feedback. For problems, let us know via the Report a Problem option in Visual Studio. For suggestions, let us know through <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudio.uservoice.com\/forums\/121579-visual-studio\">UserVoice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"150\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/07\/JohnMontgomery1_2013-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"242\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"450\"><strong>John Montgomery<\/strong>, Director of Program Management for Visual Studio\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnMont\">@JohnMont<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John is 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am happy to share Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview 3 (which is different from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3). This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so my recommendation is to not install it on your production environments. That said, it should install right on top of any previous Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Previews [&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":[1195,472,4980,155],"tags":[237,1383,137,376,124,182,12,353],"class_list":["post-7275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cross-platform","category-gaming","category-java","category-visual-studio","tag-net","tag-c","tag-html","tag-java","tag-javascript","tag-unity","tag-visual-studio","tag-xamarin"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today I am happy to share Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Preview 3 (which is different from Visual Studio 2015 Update 3). This is still a Preview and is unsupported, so my recommendation is to not install it on your production environments. That said, it should install right on top of any previous Visual Studio \u201c15\u201d Previews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","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=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/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=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}