The document summarizes announcements made at the Microsoft Build 2015 conference, including the release of Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC), Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 RC. A new cross-platform code editor called Visual Studio Code was also previewed. The document then provides details on prerelease software types and improvements in Visual Studio 2015 RC like creating extensions, debugger improvements, and .NET Framework 4.6 support. It concludes by describing Visual Studio Code as a lightweight code editor that runs on MacOS, Linux and Windows and provides intelligent code authoring and integrated debugging for multiple languages.

1. Visual Studio 2015 Product
Lineup
Announcing 29 April
By: Diaa M. AL-Salehi
May 2015

2. Build 2015 Conference
• This conference happened in Moscone Center ,San Francisco,
April 29 – May 1.
• The Microsoft BUILD conference is typically a time when a lot
of developer tools are released
• The very short version released is:
Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).
 Team Foundation Server 2015 RC.
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 RC.
• And also a preview of a new tool that runs on MacOS, Linux,
and Windows called Visual Studio Code.

3. Prerelease Software Downloads
• Prerelease software enable us to provide early and frequent
builds of our products under development.
Preview • Enable us to provide more frequent
releases to solicit early feedback
Beta • Software is an early build release
that is not quite ready for use in
production environments.
Release Candidate • (RC) software is a version of the
product (usually the most recent)
that is deemed complete and stable
enough to become the released
version.
Released Version • Version that is complete enough for
use in production environments.

4. Visual Studio 2015 Product Editions

5. VS 2015 RC Improvements
• Creating Extensions for VS 2015.
• Debugger Improvements.
• .NET Framework 4.6: cross-platform
support and new JIT.

6. VS 2015 RC improvements (cont’d)
• Sign in with work and school accounts in addition to
MSA

7. VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d)
• Improved Notifications user experience.

8. • Add Connected Services
VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d)

9. VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d)
• Editor Improvements.
• Visual Studio Tools for
Apache Cordova

10. • Improved support for high-DPI displays
VS 2015 RC Improvements(cont’d)

11. Visual Studio Code
• Code editing redefined and optimized for
building and debugging modern web and cloud
applications.
Preview
• Visual Studio Code is free

12. Visual Studio 2015 Product Editions
Visual Studio Code

13. Visual Studio Code Characteristics
• Runs natively on the operating system of your
choice (Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows) shortly it
is available on your favorite platform.

14. VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)
• A lightweight, fast, keyboard-centric tool.
• First-class support for building ASP.NET 5 and Node.js applications.
• Support for all programming:
 languages:30+ languages and counting, syntax highlighting, bracket
matching
 Visual Studio Code supports JavaScript, C#, C++, PHP, Java, HTML, R,
CSS, SQL, Markdown, TypeScript, LESS, SASS, JSON, XML, and Python
as well as many other common file formats.

15. Visual Studio Code Characteristics
• Intelligent code authoring, understanding, and
navigation help you be productive.

16. VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)
• Integrated debugging
integrated debugging tools for Node.js, TypeScript, and JavaScript

17. VS Code Characteristics(cont’d)
• Git version control
– Commit, diff, pull and push

18. Any Questions?
Thank you 