Category Archives: Azure

Visual Studio Code beta release, Added extensibility support, open source project
.NET Core 5 RC and ASP.NET 5 RC with Go-Live license, can start using it in production
Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services, agile team collaboration and DevOps
Visual Studio Dev Essentials, priority forum support, Pluralsight, Wintellect,, Xamarin, (Azure early 2016)
Visual Studio cloud subscriptions
- Monthly subscriptions include the VS Pro or Enterprise IDE, access to VSTS
- Annual subscriptions includes technical support incidents, Azure credits, etc
Visual Studio Marketplace, central place to find, acquire, install extensions for all editions of Visual Studio
VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1, will both happen on November 30^th.
Xamarin 4 support. end-to-end solution to build, test, monitor native mobile apps with VS2015 Update 1
iOS Build with MacinCloud on VSTS, currently in preview at $30/month per agent with no limits on build hours

Additional Announcements

next major version of Visual Studio, improved setup, lightweight installation options
Visual Studio Emulator for Android is coming to Mac OS X, sign up for info
HockeyApp extension is available in the Visual Studio Marketplace
Public Preview of Visual Studio GDB Debugger Extension, enabling Linux native remote debugging support
js Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 RTM, Node.js v4.x support in Visual Studio
Azure Service Fabric and Azure DevTest Labs in Public Preview, build and operate microservice-based applications at scale
Azure SDK 2.8 for .NET, updates to Mobile Apps templates, big data tools, updates to Docker and Data Factory tools
Microsoft Graph (GA and Preview), access data, intelligence and APIs, more at Office Blog and Office Dev Blog
Additional updates for mobile development, CodePush Open Beta, Intune App SDK, MacinCloud partnership
Docker tools for Visual Studio RC, Docker containers from VS target both Linux and Windows
Azure diagnostics, now offered as part of Visual Studio Application Insights