Hi, I am Daniel Moth, a Program Manager in Visual Studio. I don’t know about you, but I usually spend more time (and more fun time in fact!) in the debugger than I do in actually constructing my app. Perhaps that is the reason I also work on the...

In Visual Studio 2012, we added many new features for JavaScript developers, delivering a first class JavaScript experience in Visual Studio. Now, in Visual Studio 2013, we’ve continued evolving and improving the JavaScript development experience...

It’s been 2 weeks since we released Visual Studio 2013 Preview, and we’d like to hear what you think about it. Let us know your impressions by taking the Visual Studio 2013 Preview survey . We do these surveys with most of our releases...

In Visual Studio 2013, we have introduced new features that boost productivity and save time when working inside the Editor. Some of these are new features and some are the most popular extensions from Productivity Power Tools . These features are a result...

Related Files is a feature available in both Blend for Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. In this post, I’ll describe how this feature works and how to make the best of it when designing your Windows Store app in HTML....

As you may have read in our post about signing into Visual Studio 2013 , one benefit of signing in is the ability to roam your product’s settings across machines. In this post I’ll tell you more about the Synchronized Settings feature. ...

With VS 2013 Preview now available for download , we’re excited to share how we’ve been using the feedback and data you’ve shared with us to drive performance improvements to Visual Studio. In this first post, we’ll walk through...

Applications today are leveraging the cloud to deliver personalized experiences and offer new capabilities. So it’s no surprise the tool used to build those applications is also putting the connected developer at the center of the IDE. In Visual...

Today at BUILD we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 and Blend that brings forward significant advances for authoring XAML-based Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1. This post describes some of the new experiences we are excited to bring...

As we were beginning the development of Visual Studio 2012, the user experience teams from across Microsoft worked together to align the design of our products and services around a set of core company-wide design principles that each product and service...

Today in the keynote at BUILD we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Preview that can be downloaded here . Make sure to visit Somasegar's blog for a look at what's new in this release of Visual Studio and you can also find additional resources...

Last month, we shipped Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2). We’re continuing to see good uptake of the Update releases, with the majority of Visual Studio 2012 users now running on VS Update . We’re also hearing positive feedback on the...

We’re excited to announce that today, Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 (VS2012.2) is now available for download . For an overview of the five areas of investments in VS2012.2 that we made across agile planning, quality enablement, Windows Store development...

This week we released two new sets of tools, which help Visual Studio 2012 users take advantage of the latest Microsoft development platforms. SQL Server Data Tools Yesterday we released SQL Server Data Tools - Business Intelligence for Visual Studio...

In Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 , we introduced a JavaScript memory analysis tool for Windows Store apps to help developers, you, build apps that do not leak memory, so that these apps are more reliable, potentially more responsive and therefore have the...

Today, the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Visual Studio 2012.1) is available for download. You can get it now via the Visual Studio 2012.1 download page (see "Visual Studio 2012 Update 1" under the "Additional software" section). For an overview of the...

By popular request, the new version of the Productivity Power Tools has arrived for Visual Studio 2012 ! These tools are the fruit of a few passionate engineers on the Visual Studio team that love sharing the power of Visual Studio with customers. The...

It gives us great pleasure to announce that today at //build/ we launched the Windows Phone 8 development story. We have enhanced the existing Visual Studio 2012 developer tools to support development of Windows Phone 8 apps optimized for a variety of...

Since releasing Visual Studio 2012 we have continued on our investment in the user experience space to enable you to work more efficiently and to make the Visual Studio experience engaging and productive. One of the design principles we are following...

In Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows 8 you’ll see that we have included the popular NuGet package manager by default and customized it to include a Windows 8 packages feed that presents you a filtered list of NuGet packages for use in developing...

A month ago we launched Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 at our launch event ( http://www.visualstudiolaunch.com ) in Seattle. At this event and online, we had a number of sessions showing how Visual Studio 2012 helps you build great applications. We are...

A few months ago, Soma announced plans for a Visual Studio Express 2012 edition for Windows Desktop. Today, we are happy to share that this new Express product is available for download . (You can find the system requirements and download details here...

Windows 8 brings a new app lifecycle model , in which Windows Store apps are automatically managed for the user. These apps always feel alive, even though they never run when they’re off the screen. This provides great benefits for power consumption...

On August 15 th , we announced the release of Visual Studio 2012 to the web! Make sure to visit Somasegar’s Blog for the announcement, and if you haven’t downloaded yet, check out Jason Zander’s Blog for 12 reasons to upgrade . There...

As mentioned in the previous performance post on Typing and Editing we would follow with a post on the improvements to Visual Studio 2012 from enhancements in the Toolbox. I would like to introduce Duke Kamstra and Chuck England from two teams in Visual...