Whats New in Visual Studio 2015
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Whats New in Visual Studio 2015
- 1. Whats Cool In Visual Studio 2015 Adam Hill @adamhill Improving Enterprises
- 2. New Visual Studio, Same as the Old Visual Studio (almost) • Still a great IDE • Focuses on developer productivity • Flexible to a fault • Still compatible with most 3rd party extensions • Works in the Microsoft ecosystem even better • Supports other ecosystems (iOS & Android) • New compilers and support for easily adding new ones and doing “language-y” things in the IDE
- 3. (Not comprehensive) Feature List • Roslyn • C# 6.0 • ASP.Net 5 • Non-MS toolchains • Supports clang and Xcode (Android and iOS) • IDE Coolness • Windows layouts • Error Hub • No-more popups (Debug settings) • Debugging coolness • Debug lambdas • Lambdas in the watch window
- 4. Even More (Not Comprehensive) Features • Touch support, large display support • More Azure integration • EF 7 • Shared projects (WPF, WinForm,Universal,Phone) • Intellisense for npm and Bower’d things. • Better Git support • Shows branches • Lets you organize branches in the Team Explorer • Code Lens can show you commit frequency • Smart Unit Tests
- 5. Roslyn • Compiler as a Service • Framework for Visual Studio understanding your code • Allowing you to add features to a language or adding support for a new language/compiler to Visual Studio • All the new C# 6.0 syntax and behavior • ASP.NET 5’s compile-less coding (csScript) • Refactoring and hint support to Visual Studio • New light bulb support
- 6. C# 6.0 • Null conditional operator (<x>?.<y>) • Auto property initializer • Defaults and readonly backing field • nameof(<X>) • Expression Bodied Functions and Properties • Exception • await inside of a try/catch (didnt know you couldnt do that now) • Exception filter - (if (ex.NativeErrorCode = 0x0004) • String interpolation (no more {0} {1})
- 7. IDE Coolness • Window layouts • Save / load multiple layouts • Less popups • Breakpoint settings • Lightbulbs • Things we are used to 3rd party plugins doing • usings • Refactorings
- 8. Debugging Coolness • Debug lambdas • Lambda in the watch window
- 9. iOS & Android Development • No, I am not punking you :-) • It works. • Its not too complex • YOU CAN USE THE VISUAL STUDIO DEBUGGER!!! • When it does work, it is pretty dang cool • Android • Native and Cordova • iOS • Cordova (but need a Mac and $99)
- 10. SHOW ME THE IDE!!!