News
WCF is Open Source!
This new version of WCF targets .NET Core and has been donated to the family of .NET Foundation open source projects.
Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels
Been using Visual Studio 2015? Even after release the VS team wants to hear from you. Check out all the different ways you can send them feedback.
Windows Bridge for iOS: Let’s open this up
You can now re-use your existing Objective-C code to create Windows Apps. This has the potential to make it much easier to port existing iOS apps to the Windows / Windows Phone ecosystem.
F# 4.0 Released for All Platforms
The changes to the language include a lengthy list of new features, bug fixes, and language additions combined with some performance improvements, including things like constructors as first-class functions and normalized collections API.
Process
Why write Python in Visual Studio?
If you follow this newsletter you may have seen us link to Microsoft's tools for writing Python in Visual Studio? But why would you want to do that? What are the advantages?
Code
C# 6 string interpolation is not a templating engine, and it’s not the new String.Format
String interpolation is a useful improvement to the language, that will make a lot of code look more fluid. Its scope however, is restricted.
Visual Studio 2015 FAQ
Since we released Visual Studio 2015 on July 20th we’ve been busily answering questions on our forums, here on the blog, on Connect, and on StackOverflow. Here are some of the common questions.
Debug
Easiest way to get Performance Information during Debugging in Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2015 comes with some tools baked in to analyze performance. "Most of the time we Get time of Code Execution Using StopWatch , or other logging mechanism, profiler tool etc. However, they are time consuming and sometime does not add values to check for a single methods, smaller code segments. Visual Studio 2015 makes our life easier. Getting the performance information is now in your finger tip and you can inspect this information during debugging itself."