Microsoft is rolling out the pre-release of Visual Studio 2015 in order to get the feedback from the real world. So, it released the Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP 5) and we are looking forward to the new features and enhancements. So, let us see what’s new this time….

Enhanced coding experience

The Visual Studio 2015 gives you an amazing coding experience by replacing the code editor with Rosslyn that shows you the small light bulbs besides the lines of code that needs to be fixed up. So, whenever and wherever you see the light bulb, you must click it and check out the suggestion to fix up the code. In short, it provides you the speedy and consistent XAML editing experience with IntelliSense.

Custom Windows Layouts

With this amazingly new custom windows layouts feature, you can switch between multiple devices during the development. Also, it supports the keyboard shortcuts to navigate to the layout that you wish to till the time you are signed into the Visual Studio 2015.

Shared Project

Finally, with Visual Studio 2015, you can use a share project outside the Windows universal app just through searching for ‘shared’, selecting C# and then creating a class.

Timeline Tool

This tool lets you find out the resources consumed by your application. This can help you enhance the performance of WPF and applications. Also, it tells you the time taken by the application to prepare the UI frames and to serve the disk requests.

Diagnostic Tools

• Debugger events: In this feature, the data is presented in a tabular view as well as timeline view simultaneously. Both the views get synchronized and they can interact with each other.
• Memory usage: It lets you observe the memory usage of your application when you are debugging. If you want to know the reason behind the memory growth and leaks, you can take the snapshots of the native and managed memory and compare them.
• CPU usage: As the name suggests, this feature lets you keep an eye on the CPU usage of the application when you are debugging.

ASP.NET

The Visual Studio 2015 brings a completely new ASP.NET 5 with new features and enhanced developing experience. Some of the most important features are:

• Now, you can also add reference to the C# projects
• You will also get the benefit of the newly added Intelligence and validation to the CSS, JavaScript and HTML editors.
• Improved client side task runner support
• If you are on ASP.NET project, you can choose the browser of your choice when you are running or debugging the project.
• In Visual Studio 2015, you can launch your own custom commands.
• ASP.NET templates updating

Visual C ++

The features like digit separators and universal character names in literals have been incorporated into the Visual Studio 2015

So, these were the top seven new features of the Visual Studio 2015 Community Technology Preview 5 (CTP 5).

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