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November 2014 - Visual Studio Blog

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Connecting to Cloud Services

November 19, 2014 Nov 19, 2014 11/19/14
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Modern applications often rely on services for analytics, data storage and retrieval, and customer information. It’s increasingly common to see applications that blend together services such as Salesforce with Azure Storage and a couple of analytics services such as Application Insights or Flurry. While these services provide usable REST ...
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Improving the Visual Studio Account Management Experience

November 18, 2014 Nov 18, 2014 11/18/14
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Anyone who has built an application in Visual Studio that uses several services (e.g. roaming Visual Studio settings, accessing Azure services in Server Explorer, or using Windows Store) has probably experienced what we’ve come to call “sign-in Whack-A-Mole,” with prompts popping up when you least expect them to. In Visual Studio 2015 we...
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Blend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview

November 13, 2014 Nov 13, 2014 11/13/14
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Yesterday we released a preview of Visual Studio 2015, and as part of that we are introducing a new Blend experience. We redesigned Blend for Visual Studio 2015 to provide you with a great user interface development experience for creating beautiful XAML apps. Blend has a sleek new look consistent with Visual Studio for improved workflow ...
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Tools for Apache Cordova Update: iOS Debugging & Windows 8.1 Support

November 13, 2014 Nov 13, 2014 11/13/14
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At Visual Studio Connect(); we released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. These tools allow you to use Visual Studio to build Apache Cordova-based apps written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What makes these apps special is that they allow you to marry the familiarity of coding using web technologies with the ability to ...
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The C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused IDE Experience

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
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The new C# and Visual Basic code-focused IDE experience in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview is significantly improved over the experience in Visual Studio 2013 and I’m excited to share some highlights with you. We’ll look at a few key areas: Many of the new and refreshed features that I describe below come to us by way of ...
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Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and More

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
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[UPDATED 8/5] Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, and .NET 4.6 were released on 7/20/2015. Check out this post announcing VS 2015 and VS 2013 Update 5 and this one announcing .NET framework 4.6. [UPDATE: 11/13] We have updated this post with links to detail blog posts on updated tooling for Apache Cordova and Blend for ...
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Save the date! Connect(“November 12 & 13”); is almost here

November 10, 2014 Nov 10, 2014 11/10/14
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Don’t miss the cloud-first, mobile-first, code-first virtual event for developers, streaming live starting November 12th! Join us on Day 1, November 12th and watch keynotes from Scott Guthrie, S. Somasegar, Brian Harry, and Scott Hanselman where they will share news on innovative new products and services that build on your existing ...