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Fewer Visual Studio Sign-in Prompts
You’ve told us that Visual Studio makes you sign in WAY too often. Over the last year, we’ve released several improvements to help address your feedback. The keychain we released with Visual Studio...
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Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion. The highlight of this release is that nearly...
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New C# 7.0 features in Visual Studio “15” Preview 4
Over the past couple of previews, new C# language features have been trickling in, but Preview 4 marks a point where the majority of C# 7.0 are now available. Here’s a code sample that uses a good...
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Join us this November for Connect(); 2016
Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to...
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Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5
Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains...
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What’s new in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 for Universal Windows Developers
In Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, we introduced support for building apps that target the Windows Anniversary Update SDK. Visual Studio “15” continues where VS 2015 left off and brings several new...
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Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup
As John mentioned last Wednesday in the preview 5 announcement post, we are investing heavily performance improvements in this release. This is part one of a five-part series covering performance...
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Shorter Solution Load Time in Visual Studio “15”
This is the 2nd post in a five-part series covering performance improvements for Visual Studio “15”. Yesterday Selma shared some of the ways we have made Visual Studio “15” startup quicker than ever....
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Reduced Out of Memory Crashes in Visual Studio “15”
This is the third post in a five-part series covering performance improvements in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. The previous 2 posts talked about faster startup, and shorter solution load times in...
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Faster C++ solution load and build performance with Visual Studio “15”
With Visual Studio ‘15’ our goal is to considerably improve productivity for C++ developers. With this goal in mind we are introducing many new improvements, which you can try out in the recently...
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Improved overall Visual Studio “15” Responsiveness
This is the final post in a five-part series covering performance improvements for Visual Studio “15”. This series covers the following topics: Part 1: Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup Part 2: Shorter...
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Answers to your top TACO questions
Last month I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the Microsoft Ignite conference where we discussed mobile app development. I spoke about Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova...
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Extensibility in Visual Studio “15”: Increasing Reliability and Performance
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that in Visual Studio “15” we’ve been focused on making our developer tools easier to install, increasing performance, and enhancing developer productivity....
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Connect(); // 2016 starts Nov 16th
As hundreds of people across Microsoft head towards New York City we wanted to take this opportunity to write a short blog post to remind our community that we’re almost ready to unveil Connect(); //...
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Introducing Visual Studio Mobile Center (Preview)
During this morning’s Connect(); 2016 keynote, I introduced the preview of Visual Studio Mobile Center, a set of cloud services for building and managing your mobile apps. Mobile Center is designed for...
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Announcing the new Visual Studio for Mac
At this morning’s Connect(); 2016 keynote, Nat Friedman and James Montemagno introduced Visual Studio for Mac, the newest member of the Visual Studio family.Visual Studio for Mac is a developer...
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Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate
Today during the Connect(); 2016 event we announced the availability of the release candidate of the next version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate. Thank you to those who tried...
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The expanding Visual Studio family of products
The core of our vision is “Any Developer, Any App, Any Platform.” With our Visual Studio family of products, we are committed to bringing you the most powerful and productive development tools and...
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Visual Studio Tools for Unity 3 Preview
Today at Connect() we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 3 Preview. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for...
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Whats’s new for iOS and Android developers using JavaScript?
With the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC this week, we’re introducing you to the latest and greatest release of the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO). In this release, we’re tackling the...
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