Visual Studio 2015 Product Lineup

Announcing 29 April

By: Diaa M. AL-Salehi

May 2015

Build 2015 Conference• This conference happened in Moscone Center ,San Francisco,

April 29 – May 1.

• The Microsoft BUILD conference is typically a time when a lot of developer tools are released

• The very short version released is:Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC). Team Foundation Server 2015 RC.Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 RC.

• And also a preview of a new tool that runs on MacOS, Linux, and Windows called Visual Studio Code.

Prerelease Software Downloads• Prerelease software enable us to provide early and

frequent builds of our products under development.

Preview • Enable us to provide more frequent releases to solicit early feedback

Beta • Software is an early build release that is not quite ready for use in production environments.

Release Candidate

• (RC) software is a version of the product (usually the most recent) that is deemed complete and stable enough to become the released version.

Released Version

• Version that is complete enough for use in production environments.

Visual Studio 2015 Product Editions

VS 2015 RC Improvements 

• Creating Extensions for VS 2015.

• Debugger Improvements.

• .NET Framework 4.6: cross-platform support and new JIT.

VS 2015 RC improvements (cont’d)

• Sign in with work and school accounts in addition to MSA

VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d) 

• Improved Notifications user experience.

• Add Connected Services

VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d) 

VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d) 

• Editor Improvements.

• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

• Improved support for high-DPI displays

VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d) 

Visual Studio Code • Code editing redefined and optimized

for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

Preview

• Visual Studio Code is free

Visual Studio 2015 Product Editions

Visual Studio Code 

Visual Studio Code Characteristics• Runs natively on the operating system

of your choice (Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows) shortly it is available on your favorite platform.

VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)• A lightweight, fast, keyboard-centric tool.

• First-class support for building ASP.NET 5 and Node.js applications.

• Support for all programming: languages:30+ languages and counting, syntax

highlighting, bracket matching Visual Studio Code supports JavaScript, C#, C++, PHP,

Java, HTML, R, CSS, SQL, Markdown, TypeScript, LESS, SASS, JSON, XML, and Python as well as many other common file formats.

Visual Studio Code Characteristics• Intelligent code authoring,

understanding, and navigation help you be productive.

VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)• Integrated debugging

integrated debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript

VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)

• Git version control– Commit, diff, pull and push

Any Questions?

Thank you