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Marshmallow (API 23) now available in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android

November 6, 2015 Nov 6, 2015 11/6/15
John Kemnetz
Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Marshmallow images in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Marshmallow (Android version 6.0, API Level 23) is the latest release of Android, and includes a set of new APIs for developers to use. If you’ve developed an app for other versions of Android, you’ll want to make sure your ...

Profile Your CPU in the Debugger in Visual Studio 2015

October 29, 2015 Oct 29, 2015 10/29/15
Nikhil Joglekar
This blog post introduces the updates to the CPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. First we will define and introduce the CPU Usage tool and then we’ll go over some of its features. If you would like to provide feedback about your profiling experiences, we’d love to hear from you: take this short survey or drop us an e-mail. ...

Improvement to Debugging C++ Access Violations in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1

October 29, 2015 Oct 29, 2015 10/29/15
Aaron Hallberg
In this blog post I will introduce a small but useful Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 improvement for debugging C/C++ code. When writing C/C++ code it is common to deal with complex lines that utilize multiple pointers, for example dereferencing multiple pointers on a single line. However, it can be difficult to decipher which part of that line...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ and Android Studio

October 23, 2015 Oct 23, 2015 10/23/15
David Staheli
Expanding our support for Java IDEs and following in the footsteps of our Eclipse plugin, today we are announcing a preview of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ that works with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. This new plugin provides features for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO).  ...

Application Performance Analysis Survey

October 19, 2015 Oct 19, 2015 10/19/15
Nikhil Joglekar
My name is Nikhil, and I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Our team has been investing heavily in making it easier to solve performance problems in your applications.If you have two minutes, I'd love to hear your feedback on dealing with performance problems in your applications by filling out the survey below. Your...

New fields bring Kanban goodness to queries, and more

October 19, 2015 Oct 19, 2015 10/19/15
Sondra Batbold
In VSO, the Kanban board is your control room. Like traditional switchboards and status indicators, the board empowers teams with mission critical information: which work items are in progress, where the bottlenecks are, who the work is assigned to, and so on. There’s a certain calm to knowing all of this... and we get it. As consumers of...

Breaking change in TFS 2015 Update 1 for server-side plugins

October 13, 2015 Oct 13, 2015 10/13/15
Aaron Hallberg
Since Team Foundation Server 2010, TFS has supported extending its functionality using server-side plugins. These plugins are written against the server object model, and in particular the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.ISubscriber interface. Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 includes a breaking change in that interface, meaning ...