The Big Picture
Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Release to Manufacturing) was released on 20 July 2015. The first thing to note is the new .NET Framework 4.6.
Update 2 CTP (Community Technology Preview) was released on 20 February 2016 (it is an unsupported pre-release version of Visual Studio not recommended for production usage).
.NET 4.6; EF7 Preview
.NET 4.6 includes better WPF support for touch (removing a delay in processing touch events) and HDPI (high dots per inch). There are also improvements to garbage collection and cryptography (i.e. ECSDA X509 certificates), more details here.
There is also a preview of Entity Framework 7 (which allows Windows phone applications to use Entity Framework) and an update of Entity Framework 6.
Welcome Cordova 4.0
RTM also introduced Apache Cordova (4.0) support in Visual Studio. Apache Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework (which is free and open source under the Apache License Version 2.0). Update 1 also introduced new samples, updates and bug fixes.
C++14 and C++17 Look-ahead (Resumables for x64)
But is there anything new in the C++ space? Indeed, there is enhanced support for C++ 11 and initial support for some C++ 14 features. For one thing, return type deduction has been implemented. Resumable functions, expected in C++ 17, has also been implemented for x64 targets. For interest, Stroustrop's thoughts on C++ 17 are here.
Visual Studio 2015 RTM (Release to Manufacturing) was released on 20 July 2015. The first thing to note is the new .NET Framework 4.6.
Update 2 CTP (Community Technology Preview) was released on 20 February 2016 (it is an unsupported pre-release version of Visual Studio not recommended for production usage).
.NET 4.6; EF7 Preview
.NET 4.6 includes better WPF support for touch (removing a delay in processing touch events) and HDPI (high dots per inch). There are also improvements to garbage collection and cryptography (i.e. ECSDA X509 certificates), more details here.
There is also a preview of Entity Framework 7 (which allows Windows phone applications to use Entity Framework) and an update of Entity Framework 6.
Welcome Cordova 4.0
RTM also introduced Apache Cordova (4.0) support in Visual Studio. Apache Cordova is an open-source mobile development framework (which is free and open source under the Apache License Version 2.0). Update 1 also introduced new samples, updates and bug fixes.
C++14 and C++17 Look-ahead (Resumables for x64)
But is there anything new in the C++ space? Indeed, there is enhanced support for C++ 11 and initial support for some C++ 14 features. For one thing, return type deduction has been implemented. Resumable functions, expected in C++ 17, has also been implemented for x64 targets. For interest, Stroustrop's thoughts on C++ 17 are here.
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