Whats New in Visual Studio 2015

A big day for the .Net Developers. Recently Microsoft released the full version of next version of Visual Studio named “Visual Studio 2015”, along with “.NET 4.6 ”. It came up with lots of new features and tools for the developers including the open source community.

I have downloaded and tried VS 2015 and thought to share some new cool features which I personally liked most.

Lets see the newly introduced features :

1. Code Snippets Manager : Although it was in previous versions also but this feature is really cool.In the previous versions you might have seen lot of keywords using which you can write lot of codes in single key press such as for writing structure of "switch" condition simply write 'switch' and press "tab" key twice and your whole switch condition is created. Now you can customize this feature in new version of the VS. You can define your own keywords and put your commonly used code and play with it. you can access this manager from Tools Menu. See below figure :

Figure 1 ; Accessing Code Snippets Manager from tools Menu

Figure 2 : Code Snippets Manager

2. Code Analysis : Improvements in the code analysis tool is really appreciable. In earlier versions lot of rules were added and most of them were of no use in most o the projects. Now in the new version, Microsoft compacted the rule sets and added lot of rules which we think should be in the previous versions.Old rules were separated and can be added if you want to add. Also new categories added . Now we have 5 categories which are Error, Warning, Info, Hidden and None. You are going to love this tool. See below pic 

Figure  3: Code Analysis Tool Rule set.

Figure 4 : Code Analysis Rules Categories

Figure 5 : Old rule sets which can be added to the existing rule sets .

3. Debugging : VS 2015 now made debugging more easy.One nice feature in this version is the Diagnostic Tool which shows up when you debug the project. It will show you how your app performs. Also there is a setting for debugging at the line you are debugging where you can set the preferences for your debugging. See below pics

Figure 6 : Confirmation window when you first time debug your app

Figure 7 : Showing Debugger Setting

Figure 8 : Debugger Settings for Conditions

Figure 9 : Debugger Settings for Actions

I have listed only the above features. There are lot many more features available in the new version. Explore the VS and you will be happy to get help from VS in your programming .

Comments and Suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.