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Visual Studio Marketplace (mostly) Replaces VS Gallery
Visual Studio has a new website for extensions. Known as Visual Studio Marketplace, this site aggregates extensions for the Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Team Services.
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Developer Panel Discusses Microservices, Containers and Serverless at Microsoft Connect
A developer panel was held at Microsoft Connect() following the multiple annoucements of new features and releases. Microservices and containers are in the center of the discussion, along with Azure, serverless architecture and developer tooling.
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.NET Core Tools Switch to MSBuild
The release of .NET Core saw the debut of a new project system that differed from that used by Visual Studio. In the latest Core Tools preview, the project.json format is being replaced with the more common MSBuild format.
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Compiling on Windows without Visual Studio
Microsoft has previously offered two different build tools for those needing to compile code without installing Visual Studio. The new Visual Studio Build Tools package combines these into a single tool.
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.NET Standard 2.0: Setting Expectations Straight
Following last .NET Connect 2016, a few Microsoft MVPs have published their views on what .NET Standard is and where it is headed.
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JetBrains Rider: A New .NET IDE Based on IntelliJ and ReSharper
JetBrains Rider was introduced in January of this year but spent the most part of the year in private Early Access Preview, not yet ready for the public. Now the EAP has been made available to everyone who wants to see what it is like to develop for .NET on the IntelliJ platform. There are some issues to be fixed before it becomes generally available but the tool is quite stable.
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Visual Studio 2017 RC Released
Microsoft has formally announced Visual Studio 2017, the successor to VS2015. The latest preview, now at the Release Candidate stage, provides developers with a way to try the software under a go-live license.
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Extending Visual Studio "15"
Extension writers will benefit from several new capabilities in Visual Studio 15 that provide for more flexible installations and better extension performance.
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Microsoft to Announce Visual Studio for Mac
The MSDN Blog briefly published a post on Visual Studio for Mac, then they took it down because the new product is supposed to be announced at Microsoft Connect(), which is to take place from Nov 16-18, 2016. A copy of the page can be accessed on Google’s cache.
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Microsoft Releases Asp.Net Core 1.1 Preview 1
Microsoft recently released ASP.NET Core 1.1 preview. This version includes several new middleware components, WebListener server for Windows, Razor view compilation and Azure related features.
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VS Code Breaks NPM Registry
Microsoft has launched VS Code 1.7.1, after breaking NPM registry with its 1.7 release. Project manager Wade Anderson said VS Code's Automatic Type Acquisition unintentionally flooded npm with requests for non-existent packages.
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Introducing the F# Software Foundation Programs
The F# Software Foundation oversees all aspects related to F#. This includes the technical side as well as promoting the language and offering services to its members such as its mentorship program. InfoQ reached out to Reed Copsey, Jr., executive director of the foundation, to learn more about the foundation’s role and its programs.
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Visual Studio 15 Improves C++ Project Loading
Visual Studio in the past has struggled with large solutions. Visual Studio 15 seeks to improve project load times for C++ developers with a new feature called Faster Project Load.
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Addressing Visual Studio 15’s Memory Usage
As software projects grow in complexity and size, it has increased the resource demands imposed on programmer's toolsets. Visual Studio is no exception, and these increased demands combined with its ever-growing feature set means that it is feeling constrained. In this article we will examine how Microsoft is trying to overcome the 32-bit nature of VS15's main process.
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Google Releases .Net APIs for Google Cloud
Google recently announced .Net support for Google Cloud APIs. This includes C# bindings and PowerShell cmdlets. A Visual Studio extension is also available, allowing to browse Google Cloud resources and to deploy Asp.Net applications on Google Compute Engine.