Evolution And History Of C# 6 With Visual Studio 2015

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Visual Studio 2015 new features

1. A new setup experience.
2. Sign in across multiple accounts (Single sign-in).
3. Choose your target platform(s).
   
   a. Cross-platform mobile apps in C# with Xamarin for Visual Studio
   b. Cross-platform mobile apps in HTML/JavaScript with Apache Cordova
   c. Cross-platform mobile games in C# with Unity
   d. Cross-platform apps and libraries for native C++
   e. Universal Windows apps for any Windows 10 device
   
   
4. ASP.NET 5
   
   a. Major update to MVC, WebAPI and SignalR
   b. Supported OS: Windows, Mac, and Linux.
   c. Visual Studio 2015 tooling is more closely integrated with popular web development tools such as Bower and Grunt.
   d. Lean .NET platform for building modern cloud-based apps.
   
   
5. Classic desktop and Windows Store.
   
   
6. The .NET Framework
   Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 offers about 150 new APIs. (The latest Framework version is 4.6.1 with VS 2015 SP1)
   
   
7. C++
   Visual C++ provides significant advances in C++11/14 language conformance, support for cross-platform mobile device development, support for resumable functions and await.
   
   
8. Device Preview menu bar
   In Universal Windows Platform projects, the device preview menu bar enables you to see how your XAML-based UI will render on various screen sizes.
   
   
9. Visual Studio Graphics Diagnostics
10. Connect to Services
11. Cross-platform debugging support
    
    a. JavaScript / Cordova.
    b. C# / Xamarin.
    c. C++ / Android.
    
    
12. Debugging and Diagnostics
    
    a. PerfTips
    b. Error List
    c. GPU Usage Tool
    
    
13. Live code analysis (light bulbs)
14. IDE improvements
    
    a. Synchronized Settings (Roaming Settings)
    b. Automatic Extension Updates
    c. Title Case Menus
    d. High Resolution Images and Touch Support
    e. Custom Layouts
    f. Notification Hub
    
    
15. Design and modeling tools (Enterprise edition only)
    
    a. Code maps and dependency graphs
    b. Improved top-down diagrams
    c. Test Projects are styled differently and can be filtered
    d. Simplified external dependency links
    e. Drill-in into dependency links' takes filters into account
    f. Code elements are added to a code map with their context
    g. Get reactive code maps more quickly
    h. Skip rebuilding your solution
    i. Filter code element nodes and groups
    j. Filter relationships to make diagrams easier to read
    k. Create diagrams from the Class View and Object Browser
    
    
16. Other design and modeling changes
    
    a. Layer diagrams
    b. UML diagrams
    c. Architecture Explorer
    
    
17. Visual Studio Extensibility Tools
18. Please give feedback
    
    a. Send a smile
    b. Send a frown
    c. Report crashes, hangs and performance issues
    d. Track your issue in Connect
    
    
19. The .NET Framework 4.6
20. Entity Framework 4.6.x
21. New Project System
22. Cloud Optimized Core CLR
23. Unification
24. wwwroot Folder
25. Project.json File
26. Framework and Runtimes
27. K Project
    
    a. KRE (K Runtime Environment)
    b. KPM (K package Manager)
    
    
28. Class Libraries
29. Custom Windows Layouts
30. Azure Tooling
31. TypeScript
32. IntelliTest
    
    c. Parameterized Unit Tests
    d. Test stubs creation
    
    
33. Better Code Editor
34. Application Insights
35. Release Management
36. Git version control
    
    a. Branches
    b. Remotes management
    c. Detailed history
    
    
37. Rebase in Team Explorer
38. VSO repositories
39. Publish to Visual Studio Online
40. CodeLens:Find what happened to your code (Enterprise and Professional editions only)
41. Code maps and dependency graphs
42. XAML Language Service
43. IIS 10 Express for Visual Studio 2015
44. Azure SDK 2.7 for .NET
45. Windows 10 SDK
46. Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2
47. Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0
48. Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.1
49. Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2015
    
    a. Development with Office 365 APIs
    b. SharePoint add-in development
    c. Office add-in development
    
    
50. GitHub Extension for Visual Studio 2015
    
    a. The easiest way to connect to your GitHub repositories in Visual Studio. Easy to instal
    b. Connect to GitHub in Visual Studio
    c. Create repositories
    d. Clone repositories with one click
    e. Publish your local work to GitHub
    
    
51. Shared Project – “All the Things!”
52. Cloud-based Load Testing
    
    a. Cloud-based load testing from Azure datacentres worldwide
    b. Cloud-based Load Test now supports advanced agent diagnostics
    
    
53. IntelliSense for Bower and NPM
54. Debug Lambdas
55. More features for Blend
56. XAML IntelliSense
57. Peek in XAML
58. Visual C++ for Cross-Platform Mobile Development
59. NuGet
    
    a. NuGet 2.8.3
    b. NuGet Package Manager
    c. NuGet Gallery
    
    
60. Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
61. JavaScript
    
    a. JavaScript Editor Support
    b. Tooling support for AngularJS
    c. New JavaScript language features (from the ES6 version of JavaScript) are supported, including classes, arrow functions, and template strings.
    d. Nav bar shared project support
    e. New navigation bar
    f. JSDoc comments
    g. Object literal IntelliSense
    h. Expand/collapse. You can expand and collapse more sections of your JavaScript code, including multi-line comments, multi-line arrays, and all multi-line blocks.
    i. Task List support
    
    
62. Visual Studio Emulator for Android
63. Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows App Development
64. Language Features
    
    a. Resumable Functions (resume/await)
    b. Generic (Polymorphic) Lambda Expressions
    c. Generalized Lambda Capture Expressions
    d. Binary Literals
    e. Return Type Deduction
    f. decltype(auto)
    g. Implicit Generation of Move Special Member Functions
    h. Inheriting Constructors
    i. Alignment Query and Control
    j. Extended sizeof
    k. Constexpr
    l. User-Defined Literals (UDLs)
    m. Thread-Safe "Magic" Statics
    n. Thread-Local Storage
    o. noexcept operator
    p. Inline Namespaces
    q. Unrestricted Unions
    r. New Character Types and Unicode Literals
    s. __func__
    t. __restrict
    u. Typename keyword
    v. The globals void operator delete(void *, std::size_t) noexcept and void operator delete[](void *, std::size_t) noexcept can now be overloaded. C++14
    w. Digit separators
    x. Universal character names in literals
    y. Non-static data member initializers
    z. Attributes
    aa. User-Defined Literals (UDLs)
    bb. Data-dependency ordering attributes
    cc. New rules for auto with braced-init-lists
    
    
65. Visual C++ Library Features
66. Visual C++ Faster Builds
67. Visual C++ Performance and Code Quality
68. Visual C++ Productivity, Debugging, and Diagnostics
    And many more features.