Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 today! You can watch the keynote video from today with me, Soma, Beth Massi, Amanda Silver, and Brian Harry here on Channel 9. All the supporting videos and Q&A are also up as individual videos if you'd like.
NOTE: Because ASP.NET 5 will not only run on .NET Framework 4.6, which was released today, but also on the .NET Core Framework that will support Windows, Mac, and Linux, ASP.NET 5 isn't released today. The ASP.NET 5 roadmap is up on GitHub though. We'll have a Release Candidate that you can Go-Live with Microsoft support in November and it will 1.0 in the first quarter of 2016. Also, be sure to grab the free Visual Studio Code, no matter what platform you're on. http://code.visualstudio.com
That ASP.NET 5 developers should start exploring the framework now, and go live around the holidays on the operating system of your choice with ASP.NET 5 and the Core CLR. We'll keep doing the weekly ASP.NET Community Standup and updating you each week on our progress. Remember that the schedule is at http://www.asp.net/vnext and the documentation is growing at http://docs.asp.net.
ASP.NET 4.6
That said, ASP.NET 4.6 is live today and included in Visual Studio 2015 and VS has some great new features for Web Developers.
- JSON is first class with a .json editor and JSON Schema validation within VS. There's also intellsense for bower.json, npm, and other JSON formats.
- Even more HTML 5 support in the editor. Of note is intellisense for Angular, ARIA, and Bootstrap CSS classes. We're also watching Web Components and including support (as the world decides) for things like link rel="import."
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- JavaScript support for Angular JS controllers, factories, animations, etc. Support for JSDoc and more.
- Syntax Highlighting and intellisense for ReactJS! Support for Grunt and Gulp!
- HTTP/2 Support in ASP.NET 4.6 with SSL enabled on Windows 10 and IIS Express.
There's lots of significant updates in 2015, but Roslyn is likely the most significant. Roslyn is the open source .NET Compiler Platform. It includes the new features Visual Basic and C# 6 and can be used in your ASP.NET Web Forms projects, pages, and MVC pages.
For example, with String interpolation, this link in Web Forms:
looks like this with C# 6. See the string that starts with $""? It's got model's embedded within it. Common calls to String.Format get a LOT easier with this feature.
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Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.6 gets async model binding as well, which means less digging around in the Request object for stuff and you'll do it all asynchronously.
Visual Studio Community 2015 - It's Free!
If you're a student, open-source contributor or a small team, Visual Studio 2015 Community is free. You can use extensions and develop however you'd like. We've got not just Windows and Web Apps, but you can also use Xamarin or Cordova, and even use our Windows Phone and Android Emulators.
Learn about the Community, Professional, and Enterprise versions here and compare them in a feature matrix here.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 to edit even .NET 2.0 apps so I'm not using older versions of VS, but if you like, it does live side-by-side. On one machine I have 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015, even though it's not really needed.
The final versions of all of today’s releases are available now.
- Visual Studio 2015: Download, Release Notes
- Visual Studio 2013 Update 5: Download, Release Notes
- Additional releases:
- VSTU 2.0
- NTVS-NodeJS Tools 1.1. RC
- TypeScript 1.5
- GitHub Extension for VS 2015 RTM
- VS Emulator for Android
- Python Tools for VS 2.2
- Test Generator NUnit extension
- Azure SDK 2.7 - If you've had issues with repeated sign ons in Azure, be sure to get this along with the 2013 Update 5, it fixes that issue.
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