Today, I want to share some cool new features of version 15 and update 4. There are lots of improvements in Visual Studio “15” Preview 4. Installation, updates and uninstallation are both brisk and more reckonable with Visual Studio Enterprise "15" Preview 4.

What are the system requirements for Visual Studio “15” ? You need appropriate supported operating systems, Hardware (Processor, Hard Disk Space, RAM etc.) and additional requirements such as Team Foundation Server, .NET Framework, Windows that it supports.

Thus, we can say it’s faster, probational, and key on the need of the developers. With this, you can quickly install the tools, what you want at the time of work in a convenient and faster way. Visual Studio continuously grows its functionality and power with each release. This update is one of them. At the starting of Visual Studio, you can get tools, SDKs, documents and Emulators. We can see following efforts-

This is a good starting point to help you get up and running quickly, and decide which you want to install, according to your need.

In Visual Studio Enterprise "15" Preview 4 at the starting of this, a few bundles are available to install: Universal Platform development, Web development, Linux development with C++, .NET desktop development, Python development and so on.

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Thus, the new features in this update are-

New Installation Experience

You noticed that in previous previews, Visual Studio offered a classic installer. Now, this is the new user installation experience. You can get new tools and functionality front of it. Developers can feel new coding experience for C#, Visual Basic and debugging, source code control and many more.

SQL Server Data Tools

In this update, Azure SQL Database and SQL Server are available, which is easy to maintain, deploying of the database.

Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio

Visual Studio Software Development Kit - Visual Studio "15" Preview 4 SDK, is available.
Visual Studio Feedback - Feedback functionality is available.
Visual Studio IDE - Feel a better environment.

JavaScript and TypeScript

With this release, TypeScript 2.0 Beta is available, where this offers non nullable types. JavaScript and TypeScript are available with new features.

XAML Diagnostics

You can edit XAML while your Universal Windows App is in running mode. There are Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. Here, the following improvements are available-

Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows App Development

Great updates in tools for Universal Windows App development.

Xamarin

Xamarin 4.1 is available in this release.

Developer Command Prompt

Command Prompt is a native tool, where the developers can get extra details.

Step 1 - Open Visual Studio.
Step 2 - Select Tools menu and choose External Tools
Step 3 - On the External Tools dialog box, choose Add button.
Step 4 - Enter a Title for your new menu item such as Command Prompt.

For details, call the common7\tools\vsdevcmd.bat – help for the details.

Debugging and Diagnostics – One can experience the new Exception Helper to view the detail of his exception.

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Visual C++ - In this, there are many updates of Visual C++ environment. C++ IDE is responsible for the database operations in a fastest mode.

C# and Visual Basic - This release came with new improvements, when a user works on a large project, where the user comes across with several lines of code.

NuGet - This update realease NuGet 3.5 RC0.

Developer Analytics Tools - Developer Analytics Tools v8.1 is available in this release.

Team Explorer - Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) is available at the start of the page.