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We are happy to announce a new version of the SonarQube TFVC SCM plugin (2.1) that adds support for Team Foundation Server 2015. The previous version of the plug-in supports TFS 2013 and below. With this plugin, when using TFS 2015, you can now see user information picked from TFVC in the source code browser on the SonarQube Server. Usage This ...

With Visual Studio 2015 RTM we shipped the first version of the Diagnostic Tools window. In Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 we’ve made the following improvements to the Events tab of the Diagnostic Tools window to help you read through and understand the list of events even faster and more efficiently than before:   **Note: ****These improvemen...

This post will be updated each release of the Visual Studio Emulator for Android as a changelog and complete listing of new features. Release Notes April 2016 Version 1.0.60404.1 Includes: January 2016 Version 1.0.60106.1 Includes: November 2015 Version 1.0.51106.3 Includes: Known issues: September...

Today we’re excited to announce the availability of Marshmallow images in the Visual Studio Emulator for Android. Marshmallow (Android version 6.0, API Level 23) is the latest release of Android, and includes a set of new APIs for developers to use. If you’ve developed an app for other versions of Android, you’ll want to make sure your app runs wel...

Yesterday, SonarSource officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.3 and version 1.0.2 of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner. An updated version of the MSBuild.SonarQube.Runner documentation has also been released. Readers who have seen the SonarSource announcement might have noticed that it refers to the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. This is the new n...

This blog post introduces the updates to the CPU Usage tool in Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. First we will define and introduce the CPU Usage tool and then we’ll go over some of its features. If you would like to provide feedback about your profiling experiences, we’d love to hear from you: take this short survey or drop us an e-mail. Overview Vi...

In this blog post I will introduce a small but useful Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 improvement for debugging C/C++ code. When writing C/C++ code it is common to deal with complex lines that utilize multiple pointers, for example dereferencing multiple pointers on a single line. However, it can be difficult to decipher which part of that line of c...

Expanding our support for Java IDEs and following in the footsteps of our Eclipse plugin, today we are announcing a preview of the Visual Studio Team Foundation Plugin for IntelliJ that works with IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. This new plugin provides features for both Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO).  These provide...

Demonstrating Microsoft's continued commitment to enabling Java developers to fully utilize Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Online (VSO), we have launched a documentation subsite dedicated to Java at java.visualstudio.com. The site covers a large variety of topics relevant for Java development including:  using Git with VSO, buildin...

My name is Nikhil, and I'm a Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Our team has been investing heavily in making it easier to solve performance problems in your applications.If you have two minutes, I'd love to hear your feedback on dealing with performance problems in your applications by filling out the survey below. Your feed...