Have you caught up with all the news from Microsoft’s Connect() 2015 online conference?

• http://www.visualstudio.com/connect2015

Read all the details here:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/11/18/news-and-announcements-from-connect-2015.aspx

TL;DR below…

• 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

There are also more than 70 on-demand videos with additional details on:

• https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2015

Enjoy! 🙂