What’s new in Visual Studio 2015, ALM + ASP.NET 5: Next Level Development by Adam Cogan

This probably the longest title for any of the seminars I’m attending. I have only tried an early beta of Visual Studio 2015 a while back so I have been looking forward to getting some more information on the “almost” stable release.

The interview starts with some history of the tools that has been introduced with previous Visual Studio versions. This leads into five things that Mr. Cogan recommends in Visual Studio Online, they are:

1. Monaco Editor
2. New Build System
3. Scrum and Kanban
4. Git Pull Requests
5. Application Insights

The semeinar contiunues with going through some updates for Visual 2015

Roslyn which is the new compiler written in entierly in C#. The Roslyn compiler allows for some new interesting tools like CodeAuditor. Roslyn also comes with some new language operators (C# 6.0) such as the null propagation operator .? which allows for checking for null before executing a function on the object.

Evaluation of LINQ expressions in runtime so that the result of a LINQ can be viewed.

Some additional tools that can be used to assist the development process are NR6Pack and CodeCracker.

Code Lens will be available in the Professional version.

Smart Unit Test which is the new name for PEX.

IntelliTrace will be faster and give more information.

In the end the presentation became quite rushed and Windows 10 was brought up as a good update for Visual Studio 2015 which was a bit weird, however, Adam Cogan is a good speaker and kept the talk interesting and interactive.