News
- Flight chaos as airport admits its air traffic control PCs still run Windows 3.1
- Emoji Cheat Sheet
- Dockercraft
VS Connect 2015
- VS Connect 2015 - Visual Studio Blog
- Scott Hanselman's wrap-up
- Jerry Nixon's Guide to Visual Studio Announcements
Visual Studio Code
- Open source on GitHub
- Extension support and marketplace
- Jason's first picks: Tslint, spelling & grammar, open in GitHub - Already used these and improved his code!
- Support for new languages
- Being used by the Angular 2 team
- 45% of angular users are using Typescript?!!?
.NET
- ASP.NET 5 RC1 is out with .NET Core and has a Go Live License. This means you can go into production with ASP.NET 5 on Windows or Linux and Microsoft will support you.
- Get it at get.asp.net
- Working on compile .NET to native on Linux - fully embedded .NET in the single executable
- Csharp scripting
- Create a .CSX and execute with CSI.exe
Visual Studio
- Node.js tools 1.1 for Visual Studio
- Faster, better
- Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RTM will be available on Nov. 30.
- Visual Studio Emulator for Android will be available for Mac OS X in a future update.
- Use Visual Studio to create a Cordova app, targeting an Android emulator running on OSX
- Announcing the new Visual Studio Marketplace
- Announcing Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online).
- Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 will be available on Nov. 30.
- A HockeyApp extension is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace, with a free tier.
- Azure SDK 2.8 and support for Docker Tools for Visual Studio, Windows Containers, and Service Fabric
- Public Preview of Visual Studio GDB Debugger Extension, enabling Linux native remote debugging support in Visual Studio for Linux servers or IoT devices among others.
Misc.
Azure
- 28 Azure regions, more than AWS and Google Cloud combined
- Service fabric public preview
- Free Azure Storage Explorer at storageexplorer.com that runs on all OSs!
- Azure Dev/Test Labs is available in public preview.
- Azure Diagnostics, now offered as part of Visual Studio Application Insights, provide system and infrastructure data in one place.
Xaml
- WPF is NOT dead!