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System administrators and other users can now create an offline layout of Visual Studio that contains all content needed to install the product without requiring internet access. Note that creating the offline layout requires internet access.

For more information, see Create an offline installation of Visual Studio Visual Studio Enterprise and Community among other products can now be installed side-by-side on the same computer. To make identifying these installations simpler, you can specify a short name or “nickname”. For example, if you were to install Visual Studio Enterprise, and then install Community, both would appear the same on the start menu.

You can give the second one a nickname like “community”, and the start menu items will appear with names such as “Visual Studio community ” and “Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio community “.

We introduced a new identity service that allows you to share user accounts across Microsoft developer tools. These features now share a common and consistent sign in experience. Along with improvements to Visual Studio, we have completed the deployment of some improvements on the service side that allow users to safely stay signed in and eliminate the forced sign in every 12 hours.

This addresses the most commonly reported sign in issue. Learn more about fewer Visual Studio prompts. The Visual Studio editor now supports EditorConfig , which allows developers to define and maintain consistent coding style conventions between different editors and IDEs. See documentation for more details, and. NET documentation for information on how to use. NET code style. Open Folder is a convenient way for you to work with code bases without projects and solutions. You can open and edit files using the Solution Explorer Figure 9.

Many popular languages have syntax highlighting and support for symbol navigation GoTo. Additionally, some languages have advanced IntelliSense and debugging support directly from the folder:. You can build or debug by using F5 and the file context menu in the Solution Explorer. For the best experience, make sure you install the workload for the languages you are working with.

The performance of opening folders and toggling between folder view and solution view has been drastically improved. Lightweight Solution load enables faster loading of large Solutions. It can provide substantial improvements in Solution load time and memory usage for large Solutions. The feature is not enabled by default and can be enabled on a Solution-by-Solution basis or globally in the IDE. The feature can be turned on and off for individual Solutions in the Solution properties pane.

You may be prompted to enable the feature if we detect that you are working with large solutions. Performance of full Solution builds has been improved substantially, now at parity with conventional Solution load.

Building on the support we added in the Visual Studio updates, Visual Studio now supports syntax colorization and autocomplete for an increased range of languages. Files for the languages noted below, support these features in the new Visual Studio Core Editor even when no workloads have been installed to explicitly support the language in question.

If a workload that provides language support is installed e. We have introduced a completely new getting started experience for freshly created projects. We’ve replaced current getting started pages with an Overview tab in our new App Configuration Designer and focused the page on the actions that will get you up and running quickly!

This has been enabled in ASP. NET 4. In a previous release, this feature was named Service Capabilities. We changed the name to Connected Services. The Connected Services feature makes it easier to connect your app to services. Double-clicking this node will open a new full page tab in Visual Studio where you can discover popular Microsoft services you can connect to.

Selecting a service on the Connected Services page Figure 12 will invoke the Connected Services Wizard that configures your project, and downloads the necessary NuGet packages to get you started coding against your service quickly and painlessly. Visual Studio makes it easy to acquire additional workloads and components without leaving the IDE Figure If you can’t find the templates you’re looking for, the Visual Studio Installer can also be opened from within the New Project dialog Figure Thank you for reporting bugs!

We’ve fixed over bugs and reported issues in the compiler and tools, many submitted by customers through Microsoft Connect. In this release, we worked on performance improvement of the STL. The new SQLite-based database engine is now being used by default. This will speed up database operations like Go To Definition and Find All References, and will significantly improve initial solution parse time. We have added selectable components that enable you to install just the tools that you need.

CMake support in Visual Studio is ready for primetime! Load your CMake projects directly into Visual Studio and start coding now. Navigate To is now known as Go To, an umbrella term for a set of new navigation filters. This will make it easier to find the right results, especially in larger code bases.

Simply enable the checkers in the Code Analysis Extensions dialog in the project’s property pages Figure 15 and the extensions will be included when you run code analysis.

This release brings several improvements in optimization and code generation. Some notable improvements include:. When a solution configuration is activated for the first time it will now be faster and all subsequent activations of this solution configuration will be almost instantaneous. We improved IntelliSense performance on projects and files not using precompiled headers — an Automatic Precompiled Header will be created for headers in the current file.

Added a new experimental Predictive IntelliSense feature that provides contextually-aware filtering of what appears in the Member List. The Dot-to-Arrow IntelliSense feature has been moved from experimental to advanced, and is now enabled by default. The editor features Expand Scopes and Expand Precedence have also been moved from experimental to advanced. The experimental refactoring features Change Signature and Extract Function are now available by default. Improvements to the Open Folder experience.

Customize the experience through these json files:. Along with this, we’ve added a new dropdown to allow users to easily switch between configurations provided by CMake and CppProperties. Further configuration is supported through a CMakeSettings. Please note that the indicated installation sizes for the components listed in the installer UI are not accurate and underestimate the total size.

If the necessary tools are not installed, projects will not be created successfully and the wizard will hang. It also includes several important bug fixes, both in the front-end and the back-end of the compiler.

Visual Studio provides lots of refactorings to help you be productive and make your code more readable. Here are just a few:. Building on Visual Studio’s support for EditorConfig , we worked with the community to add. NET code style settings to the file format. This means that you can configure your team’s code style conventions, check them into source control, and have violations appear live in the editor as developers are typing.

You can see all the code style options in the Roslyn repo’s. We also added and updated style analyzers to help you customize and enforce coding conventions on your team, including:.

Note: several of these code style rules are configured as Suggestions in the editor by default Figure This release also introduces improvements to IntelliSense that will make you more productive when working in a large solution or an unfamiliar codebase. We have added an icon tray to IntelliSense that enables you to filter the member list by type e. Each filter toggle has an associated keyboard shortcut which you can discover by hovering over the icon.

We would like to thank the entire F community for dogfooding builds of F tooling in Visual Studio , filing bugs, driving discussions, and implementing bug fixes and features. The success of F in Visual Studio truly would not have been possible without the F community. Please see the full list of contributors. TypeScript 2. To read more about the release, check out the release blog post or the full change log.

A new JavaScript language service Figure 25 is available and enabled by default. Improving performance was one of the greatest focuses of this release. You will see lower memory consumption from the Visual Studio process and less out of memory crashes when working with huge JavaScript projects. Simply click the icon next to a line of code while debugging to run to that line Figure No longer set temporary breakpoints or perform several steps to execute your code and stop on the line you want.

Now while stopped at a break state under the debugger, the Run to Click icon subtly appears next to the line of code that your mouse is hovered over. Move your mouse to the icon and click the button, now your code will run and stop on that line the next time it is hit in your code path. Easily search in the Attach to Process dialog Figure 27 to quickly find the process you want to attach the debugger to. The list of running processes will be filtered to items matching your search. The search filter is sticky and will remember your previous search when you reopen the dialog.

You can now quickly reattach to processes you were previously debugging. The debugger will reattach to processes by first attempting to match the previous process ID and then by matching to the previous process name.

If no matches are found or there are multiple processes found with the same name, then the “Attach to Process” dialog will appear so you can select the intended process. Use the new Exception Helper Figure 28 to view your exception information at a glance in a compact non-modal dialog with instant access to inner exceptions. While diagnosing your NullReferenceException, you can now quickly see what was null from right inside the Exception Helper. You can now exclude breaking on exception types thrown from specific modules by clicking the checkbox to add a condition while stopped at the thrown exception.

Read this blog post for more detailed information on the new benefits of the Exception Helper. When you configure the debugger to break on thrown exceptions, you can add conditions so that the debugger will only break when exceptions are thrown in specified modules Figure You can now more effectively use several of the Debugger windows Call Stack, Locals, Autos, Watch, and Quickwatch with screen readers and for other accessibility needs.

NET Core apps. These will appear in the Events tab in the Diagnostic Tools Window. When you start a debugging session, you will see a new Summary view Figure 30 of your application in the Diagnostic Tools Window. From here, you will be able to:. The Performance Profiler can now attach to a running process. When you start debugging ASP. Live Unit Testing Figure 33 is a capability in the Visual Studio Enterprise edition that displays unit test results and code coverage live in the editor.

NET Framework. See the Live Unit Testing blog for more details. You can now associate automation with test case work items Figure 34 by selecting a test method in the Test Explorer. This new experience also allows you to view any existing associations for the chosen test method. In previous versions of Visual Studio, this could be done using the work item form. The work-item form based experience can be enabled by turning on the compatibility mode using Tools Options Figure We’ve added new Git features to Visual Studio that allow you to do more of your end-to-end workflow without leaving the IDE.

You can easily view the diff for outgoing commits, perform a force push to complete a rebase or push an amended commit, unset your upstream branch, and continue a patch rebase from Visual Studio. Additionally, we have moved to git.

This allows us to provide the most up-to-date features. We support SSH, respect your config options, and show in Team Explorer exactly what you see in the command line. To learn more about these features, check out the blog post. Additionally, you no longer need to connect to a project before cloning repos. The results are listed in a tree to allow for improved navigation. You can connect to collections or projects in addition to repos.

When you connect to Visual Studio Team Services from Visual Studio and open a work item, the work item form will appear in your web browser Figure However, if you connect to Team Foundation Server or earlier, you will see the legacy work item forms.

Visual Studio includes an upgraded feedback experience for better follow-up and collaboration. As part of this upgrade, you will notice a more collaborative Report-a-Problem experience in Visual Studio supplemented by a comprehensive web portal for a complete end-to-end feedback solution. You can now search, follow, vote, and get the latest updates on all feedback you have provided through Visual Studio IDE’s Report a Problem feature.

These enhanced experiences address much of the feedback we received from you and enable bidirectional communication between our teams and you. The new installer technology in Visual Studio gives you greater control over the tools that are installed.

Some users may install just the core Visual Studio editor while others may install several workloads. To ensure that the prerequisite features and extensions required are installed, extension authors will now be able to specify the individual components required by their extension in the manifest. Users will be warned when trying to install an extension that was not built using the new VSIX format.

The old VSIX format does not specify prerequisites needed and may fail to work if those prerequisites are unavailable in Visual Studio The VSIX manifest designer has been updated to reflect the changes to the manifest.

In the prerequisite tab Figure 38 , extension developers can find a list of installed components to specify as a prerequisite for their extension.

During the installation of the extension, the VSIX installer Figure 39 will indicate which components are missing and will install them alongside the extension. In the Extensions and Updates dialog Figure 40 , you can now schedule multiple extensions for installation, update, and uninstallation before needing to restart Visual Studio.

In the lower right corner, there is a summary of the scheduled tasks. To remove a scheduled modification, click the X next to an extension that is currently scheduled to install.

You can now choose to install files to a select list of folders that are outside of the extension directory Figure New in Visual Studio , the Roaming Extension Manager helps you keep track of your favorite extensions across all of your development environments. Roaming your extensions keeps track of the extensions you have installed by creating a synchronized list in the cloud. It tracks which extensions you have installed and lets you choose which ones are added to your Roaming list. With new extensions appearing in the gallery every day, this tool makes it quick and easy to set up each dev environment with your favorite extensions.

These icons will show you the current status of your list. You can have any extension in any state, so customize to your heart’s content! Or let us do it for you!

Any extension downloaded while you are signed in will be added to your list as Roamed and Installed and will therefore be part of your Roaming list, giving you access to it from any machine! Starting in Visual Studio , there is a breaking change with how Visual Studio consumes project and item templates to improve the performance of template discovery. The new discovery mechanism now requires all item and project templates following “vstemplate” schema to be defined in template manifest files.

Visual Studio templates that you do not define in a template manifest file will no longer be visible in New Project or New Item dialogs. While the new extensibility tooling will generate a manifest during VSIX build time, if you have Visual Studio templates released as part of an MSI package, you must manually generate template manifest files for those templates.

This contains the 1. NET Core Tools. Using Visual Studio , you can create. NET Standard libraries,. NET web projects that use the new csproj format. NET and web development” workload and an optional component in the “. NET desktop development” workload in the installer.

If you only want to develop. NET Core applications for cross platform use, you can install just the. NET Core tools using the “. See the. NET blog for more details. This updated. The release includes more than bug fixes and features to address key customer feedback and improve the overall quality of the toolchain. This update to the. David Robison 1 1 gold badge 10 10 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Julian Rios Julian Rios 1, 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges.

I had to do a “Reload Project” after installing the extension before the “Incompatible” project designation would go away on VS This doesn’t work. Works as of Feb : — Scotty. Can confirm it works, you need to right click on the projects which have “Incompatible” and click “reload”. Show 4 more comments. Fixed my issue temporarily, but then about 6 months later for no discernible reason my install projects all went back to being incompatible.

Reinstalling has not helped. This should be marked as answer. Thank you, works flawlessly — MaKiPL. Installer projects do not work in VS anymore.

Looks like they removed compatibility in I’m running VS version Microsoft just released version 0. CodeFox 3, 1 1 gold badge 28 28 silver badges 40 40 bronze badges. BozoJoe BozoJoe 5, 4 4 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 65 65 bronze badges. InnoSetup is also a great and simple installer framework. This should not be marked as the correct answer John Pittaway has provided a link in his comment to the required installer for – I installed this and my vdproject is working as expected again — Rob.

Yes, John Pittaway’s answer worked for me as well. Also, for VS , there was a different extension that was called “Visual Studio Setup and Deployment Projects” which worked for me for several years. It’s still a good choice for simple installers which don’t warrant the near vertical learning curve of Wix. BozoJoe Can vdproj be excluded easily?

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