Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes.
Today we are excited to announce that Visual Studio Update 2 is now RTM! - see Soma’s Blog Post with the official announcement.
Modern application lifecycle has been improved in Visual Studio Update 2 with significant improvements to both quality enablement and agile development. Agile development has been made easier and more flexible with Work Item enhancements (tags, filtering, sharing), Kanban board customization and improved user interfaces. Quality Enablement now supports a lightweight browser-based test management and execution to enable development teams to easily view/edit tests and your customers to run tests in a way that needs no installation on the system being tested and works non-Windows platforms; to decrease the time needed to continuously enable quality in software projects.
Business Application Development focuses on improving the line of business development and developer experience. Highlights for the line of business developers include: HTML Client and SharePoint support for LightSwitch. The developer experience improvements in the IDE include a new theme, Code Map debugger integration and performance in key areas areas including XAML design and Code Map rendering.
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