A guide to remote development with Visual Studio Live Share

Visual Studio Live Share

Working in a fully distributed, remote team requires sophisticated collaboration technology, which needs to be both supercharged and frictionless. Visual Studio Live Share was built on the bold principle of making remote developer collaboration as powerful and natural as in-person collaboration. We knew that our paradigm: “share your context, not your screen,” was only feasible, if we allowed the power of the modern IDE translate to remote collaboration sessions. Just then the world changed drastically and everyone was forced to be remote. It wasn’t just professional developers who needed Live Share; there were students, teachers, and interview candidates who needed a real-time collaboration service. So the Live…

Facebook is moving to Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for internal development

Facebook is adopting Visual Studio Code for all of its software engineers, and is currently in the process of finishing the migration from its mix of Nuclide and Emacs for internal development. As part of the partnership with Microsoft, the company will also help improve remote development extensions, which is ultimately going to benefit many more developers around the world.

Get the Most Out of iOS 11 with Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin

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Join Craig Dunn explains what’s new in iOS 11 and how to take advantage of the latest updates – from drag-and-drop for iPad to machine learning and more – 100% in .NET and Visual Studio. Whether you’re building new or updating existing Xamarin.iOS apps, you’ll see how to implement new frameworks, APIs, and UI features, walk-through code samples, get expert tips and tricks, so you can start shipping iOS 11-ready apps to your users. In this webinar, you’ll: Explore iOS 11 UI changes, including adapting to the iPhone X form…

Visual Studio 2017 is coming on March 7

Join us at 8:00 AM PST on March 7 for a two-day online event celebrating the launch of our latest version as well as 20 years of Visual Studio. Watch the live stream featuring Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de Icaza, and Scott Hanselman as they share the newest innovations in Visual Studio, .NET, Xamarin, Azure, and more. After the keynote, Microsoft engineers will lead interactive technical demo sessions to help you get the most out of Visual Studio 2017 and the rest of our tools and platform. On March…

Microsoft delivers test builds of Visual Studio for Mac, Visual Studio 2017 for Windows

Visual Studio for Mac is not a port of Visual Studio for Windows; it’s a rebranded version of Xamarin Studio integrated development environment (IDE) that will work on the Mac. (Microsoft bought mobile-tool vendor Xamarin in February 2016.) Visual Studio for Mac is available as of today as a preview for download. Visual Studio 2017 is the official name of the product Microsoft has been calling "Visual Studio Next" and/or codename "VS ’15’." As of today, a near-final Release Candidate version of that product is available to testers. The RC…

Visual Studio updates Xamarin

When you open Visual Studio 2015 and there is a pop windows to invite you to click on it for updating Xamarin and you click, nothing happends. There is a bug but clicking the update available popup was fixed in one of the recent releases. You can manually update in the Options menu under Tools. As for the errors, I get those all the time. Support packages can often be a problem. Update to the latest XF package. Try deleting bin, obj, and the contents of packages folders and rebuild.

What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages

Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development. New Editor Features Now that we have Roslyn in Visual Studio 2015, we can leverage its power to create the smartest IDE out there. The improvements we’ve made to the IDE experience in Update…

Visual Studio 2015: upgrade all NuGet packages at one time

Open the Package Manager Console and use the Update-Package cmd-let to update all packages. If this doesn’t work, you have other two solution. Always in Package Manager Console you type one of those: First solution $list = Get-package -project {Add project name here} for($i=0; $i -lt $list.Length;$i ++ ) { Update-Package -project {Add project name here} $list[$i].Id } Replace {Add project name here} with your project name without braket Second solution foreach ($p in get-project -all) { update-package -ProjectName $p.ProjectName }   Happy coding!

Why Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code provides developers with a new choice of developer tool that combines the simplicity and streamlined experience of a code editor with the best of what developers need for their core code-edit-debug cycle. Visual Studio Code is the first code editor, and first cross-platform development tool – supporting OSX, Linux, and Windows – in the Visual Studio family. At its heart, Visual Studio Code features a powerful, fast code editor great for day-to-day use. The Preview release of Code already has many of the features developers need in…

C# 6 and Visual Studio 2015

I created some examples of new C# with Visual Studio 2015. You can download and view them on GitHub (https://github.com/erossini/CS6-Preview). For more information about Visual Studio 2015, you can visit https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-preview-vs.aspx

Code First From Database’ Template not showing in Visual Studio Entity Data Model Wizard

According to Microsft in this article is should see an option ‘Code First From Database’ when adding a new item to the project under ‘ADO.NET Entity Data Model’ in step 3. Where is it the component for Code First like following picture? For installing in Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 this functions you can download the install for this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40762

Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Improved Android Emulator And New Instant Run Feature

Google today launched version 2.0 of its Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) for writing apps for its mobile operating system. Android Studio, which is based on IntelliJ, launched back in 2013 and came out of beta a year ago. It includes everything a developer needs to build an app, including a code editor, code analysis tools, emulators for all of Google’s Android platforms, and more. The new version is now available as a preview in the Canary release channel of Android Studio. With version 2.0, as Google’s group product…