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UI development made easier with XAML Edit & Continue

April 6, 2016 Apr 6, 2016 04/6/16
Visual Studio Blog
Making UI is easy. Making GREAT UI can be a bit trickier. Visual Studio wants to be the best in class tool for designing good user experiences. We have been spending a lot of our time looking at the challenges you face, learning from them, and being inspired by watching you try to solve UI problems. As a result, we have made some improvements ...

Visual Studio “15”: Installing Just What You Need

April 5, 2016 Apr 5, 2016 04/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Over the past year, we've had the opportunity to chat with hundreds of you (developers), from those who use Visual Studio every day to those who have never used it. We observed how you setup your development environments and how they evolve and change over time. We learned that you spend a significant amount of time getting the right set of ...

Faster, Leaner, Focused on Your Development Needs: The New Visual Studio Installer

April 1, 2016 Apr 1, 2016 04/1/16
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio continues to grow in power and capability with each release. Our objective is to provide every developer with the tools you need to be successful whether you’re building mobile, cloud, or desktop apps regardless of your language or framework. Now that Visual Studio includes tools for Any Developer building Any App, it also ...

Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Visual Studio Blog
Last month, we announced that Microsoft acquired Xamarin and welcomed the Xamarin team to Microsoft. Today, in his Build 2016 keynote, Scott Guthrie laid out our plans for how Xamarin and Visual Studio will come together. If you haven’t already, check out Scott Guthrie’s keynote summary post and Nat Friedman’s blog. In short, we’re ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RTM

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
Visual Studio Blog
Today at Build 2016 we released the final version of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2. This release includes everything we shared in the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP release, as well as Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC. Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 has focused on improving performance and reliability and addressing your feedback. Some key ...

Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio

March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16
John Lam
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is rarely the program itself. Instead, they produce reports or presentations from the results generated by their R program to help influence or ...

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC

March 3, 2016 Mar 3, 2016 03/3/16
Visual Studio Blog
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. Building on what we announced with the CTP release, here’s what you’ll find in Update 2 RC: As with the CTP, we’ve continued to ship ...

Top news from January 2016

February 25, 2016 Feb 25, 2016 02/25/16
Visual Studio Blog
The year has gotten off to a great start and it seems that .NET, the web, and TypeScript get the prize for the most popular topics! ASP.NET 5 is dead: Did we get your attention with that heading? Well, it’s not dead at all, it just has a new moniker as Scott Hanselman explains in Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0. I love the ...

Develop ReactNative apps in Visual Studio Code

February 22, 2016 Feb 22, 2016 02/22/16
Visual Studio Blog
ReactNative is a great way to build native, cross platform app for iOS and Android using JavaScript. We recently announced the launch of a Visual Studio Code Extension that enables you to build, debug and preview Apache Cordova apps. And today we’re pleased to announce the availability a similar extension for ReactNative! ReactNative vs. ...