Microsoft is holding it’s 2015 Connect() virtual conference today which was kicked off by a lengthy keynote from Scott Guthrie. In the keynote there were several new announcements including a sneak peek into Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, new features in Visual Studio Code, and a new model for getting Microsoft developer tools. Here’s an overview of some of the key announcements.
The next update for Visual Studio 2015 is due out later this month and will include several new features including support for viewing AppInsights data about your application directly in the IDE, support for Bower package imports, improved support of Node.js and Python, and newly added support for the R machine learning language. Also to be released on November 30 will be an update for the Windows 10 SDK and development tools that support the features of the November Windows 10 update.
Microsoft is releasing the open source .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 release candidates effective today. You can get the latest ASP.NET 5 bits at http://get.asp.net. .NET Core will be released on all platforms including Linux and OSX with GoLive licenses for production applications. For more information on the key features of ASP.NET 5 RC and .NET Core, check out the .NET Blog announcement. Also shown was a preview into the future of .NET core including command line tools for non-Windows platforms as well as the ability to leverage .NET native on those environments.
In order to distinguish the features of Visual Studio Online as separate from the IDE, Microsoft has decided to rebrand Visual Studio Online as Visual Studio Team Services. Along with the rename, they’ve also added new features including extensions such as HockeyApp and Cake, a public preview of the Release Management feature, a public preview of Package Management supporting NuGet now with Bower support most likely in the works, and Code Search for finding code in large repositories. For more information on the new features of Visual Studio Team Services check out this News page.
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