Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5

Through this project of six sections, you will learn how Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect Edition can be used to design, create, deploy, and maintain enterprise-strength distributed applications

In Visual Studio 2013, there were a handful of templates that supported developing ASP.NET projects with various frameworks and data structures.  Some of those project templates from the Visual Studio 2012 era have been removed from the Visual Studio 2015 install and added to the Visual Studio Extension gallery as the ASP.NET Project Templates extension for Visual Studio 2015. 

As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.  Today we are pleased to confirm that we now provide the ability to acquire and install the Unreal Engine directly from the IDE.  

Introducing Bootstrap Studio 

Create Your Own Project Template for Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

Use C# Interactive Window for your coding experiment in Visual Studio 2015 

Microsoft has released a preview of its new Visual Studio GDB extension, contributing to their ongoing effort to make Visual Studio support as many development environments as possible.  Microsoft's Marc Goodner has provided details of this new ability, which can be used with Visual Studio 2015 Community edition or higher.  

It's been another great year for new development tools and technologies. Here are some that bring cross-platform development languages or capabilities into Visual Studio. 

DuoCode is an alternative compiler, powered by Microsoft® Roslyn, and integrated in Visual Studio.

It magically cross-compiles your C# 6.0 code into high-quality readable JavaScript code, enabling rapid development of web applications utilizing the extensive features of the C# language, the Visual Studio IDE, and the .NET Framework base class libraries.