In this article, we will see the new features that are made available in visual Studio 15 Preview 5. There are lot of improvements in Visual 2015 and Visual 15. If you need to find any information about system requirements needed to installation and configuration click these links for both the functional and non-functional components such as Operating systems, Hardware and additional requirements.
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The following are some of the benefits we acquire when we use Visual Studio 15 preview 5.
- Shorter solution load time with lightweight project load.
- Faster startup with on-demand loading of extensions.
- Moving subsystems from the main VS process to the separate processes.
- Faster project load, coding and debugging for C++.
- Improved speed when using Git, Debugging and editing XAML code.
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The following are some of the improvements in Visual Studio 15 preview 5.
Editing Code
Intellisense filtering is now available in C#, VB and C++. In Visual Studio 15, just type what you need such as method, properties and events etc. and it automatically displays the matching items to avoid the time consumption and speed up the program flow also.
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Quick fixes and Refactorings
Quick Fixes and refactoring are available in C# and Visual Basic. Move type to matching file and into new file, it has a same name and sync file. It also contains an option to rename your file to the matching file name and vice versa.
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Navigating code
Go To (Ctrl + or Ctrl + T) to quickly find the files, types, methods and quickly find the objects in your program.
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Find all reference helps us for grouping, filtering, sorting and searching for a particular reference in Visual code.
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In Visual Studio 15, run to click feature is introduced in these settings; breakpoint to skip ahead and stop on the needed line. When stopped in the debugger Window, simply click the icon. Your code will run and stop, where it is triggered before. You can turn on this feature in Debug > Options > enable Run to click.
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Download visual studio 15 Preview 5 from Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and download from the following available link
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