While the fresh new Visual Studio 2015 isn’t as cross-platform as that, it does include support for other platforms in the mobile category, namely Android and iOS.
The overarching philosophy behind Microsoft’s “mobile-first, cloud-first” development of Visual Studio 2015 comes back to giving developers freedom of choice in tooling, Somasegar explained. The release includes a new set of DevOps services featuring a cross-platform build service, an automated unit testing tool, and a Dev/Test service delivered both via the cloud in Visual Studio Online and on-premises through Team Foundation Server.
The Visual Studio IDE was launched together with an update to its.NET framework, and is now available for download (and purchase).
This is an important release for Microsoft, as it makes sure that their premier coding suite is ready for Windows 10 and all of the features that OS brings to the market as well.
Reported by Soma Somasegar, the corporate VP of Microsoft’s developer division, the company has positioned Visual Studio 2015 and.NET 4.6 as “a great toolset for any developer, targeting any device on any platform”.
One major shift with this release is that while the Visual Studio IDE remains a Windows application, Microsoft is much more focused on enabling developers to build applications using multiple languages, operating systems, and platforms. In terms of IDE innovation and developer productivity improvements, Microsoft enhanced productivity across debugging and diagnostics, code editing and refactoring, and programming languages. Now, the developer can get information about code performance directly from within the editing window. Visual Studio Code, the stand-alone code editor for Windows, Mac and Linux has seen half a million downloads since its launch three months ago. Meanwhile “haletonin” has asked about easily obtaining a standalone version of Microsoft’s C++ compiler toolset (that wouldn’t require installing all of Visual Studio). A less expensive, non-subscription version of Visual Studio – vs. Professional – will be provided to users for $499 while a free, community edition is also available. Visual Studio now supports C# 6, the newly released.Net 4.6, VB.Net 12, ASP.Net 5, and F# 4. For its third iteration, it decided to organize a single bundle called “Visual Studio Enterprise”, complete with Microsoft Developer Network. Also, it is now easier than ever to connect to cloud environments. Or, they can package their applications into Docker containers, so they can be run in any cloud service.
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