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Visual Studio 2015 Update 2
- johnhattan 11y agoLooks like the update is for both 2015 Enterprise and 2015 Community.
- nly 11y agoTakes an age to install for a mere 6 GB (minimal).
- grokys 11y agoThis version actually installed a lot faster than the last update for me. Still kinda slow but not half-a-day slow.
- pcunite 11y agoWhere you able to find the SHA1 for the ISO download?
- grokys 11y agoNo, I just did the online update.
- ChristianGeek 11y agoJust installed the VS15 Preview in 5 minutes...very nice!
- vetinari 11y agoIs an ISO for offline update available at all? Microsoft surely makes it hard to find.
- vonzeppelin 11y agoThere appears to be one available on the MSDN downloads page at least.
- vetinari 11y agoThanks, but I don't have MSDN :(.
- wernercd 11y agoOh... you silly peasants... Then again... I only have an MSDN subscription because my previous job STILL hasn't removed me from their lists. Not that I expect them to with the clowns they replaced my previous company with. Very nice perk to still have.
- kelvin0 11y agoI've always wondered what the subscription 'perks' were? All the docs are online, and there are a ton of tuts ... what am I missing?
- nickysielicki 11y agofree keys for nearly every MS product
- Someone1234 11y agoFree = $2,999 per year...
- vetinari 11y agoThat's why we have Action Pack, which is 360 EUR/year. Supposedly it should contain Visual Studio too, but I cannot see the isos on the download page. R Studio for Redhat and SuSE, on the other hand... ;)
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- tonyedgecombe 11y agoYou can reach it at https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studi... Use the menu on the left of the page and select ISO.
- vetinari 11y agoOh, great, they updated the installation isos, thanks.
- mmebane 11y agoThey released an ISO for Update 1, so chances are there will be one for Update 2. In the meantime, you can download the online installer [1] and run vs2015.2.exe /Layout to launch the downloader, which should create a folder which contains everything that you would find on the update ISO. (EDIT: This seems to result in a 4.53 GiB download, so definitely smaller than the 6.95 GiB full install ISO.) [1]: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691129 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691129
- dvcc 11y agoSo it looks like they still won't be supporting ES6 module imports, which just screws everything up when trying to do anything with js. Sad to see.
- AaronFriel 11y agoIt looks like they're working on it and it's supported in the latest Node Tools releases? https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/77#issuecomment-174141628 https://github.com/Microsoft/nodejstools/issues/77#issuecomm...
- dsp1234 11y agoSpecifically: "This feature is currently available if you switch on the new ES6 IntelliSense Preview mode, available in the latest NTVS release. "
- dvcc 11y agoI think that is just for the NTVS plugin but VS itself still does not: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/7017377-support-for-es6-modules https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
- WorldMaker 11y agoThe release notes point to a switch to "Salsa" for JS intellisense. Salsa is based on the TS intellisense service (it is run by the TS intellisense service) and the same one used these days by VS Code. At least what I've seen in VS Code, Salsa seems fine with ES2015 import syntax and intellisense. (That said, almost all of my code is TS, so I'm not sure I've hit any specific use cases you are particularly looking for support in.)
- dvcc 11y agoDid the update today and gave it a try but it looks like it still complains on the imports, but JSX parsing did still improve at least!
- kpeel 11y agoI hope I'm not reading this wrong... But is the new "C# Interactive Window" a C# REPL? That would be amazing.
- daigoba66 11y agoIt's actually been there since Update 1.
- sea6ear 11y agoThanks for this. It was a welcome surprise to go to View->Other Windows and see this. I'll have to update soon to the new version to see the additional features it's gained.
- cmpb 11y agoYes, but I've found it to be lacking usability-wise (e.g. it doesn't load the current project's dependencies, and it doesn't provide an easy way to load in dependencies from your project [someone please correct me if I'm wrong!]).
- dimgl 11y agoIs this any different from the Immediate Window in Visual Studio?
- MichaelGG 11y ago
- pcunite 11y agoExcellent. Need to update the SHA1 values.
- joshka 11y agoSHA1 values from MSDN. I haven't checked these personally, but I imagine this is automated on there. TFS Update 2: 520461A14118C744358A18662C49E08BD35EA0E8 VS Update 2: 269FA5FE823263718DA056D465BF8EB19C87ECD8 VS Pro with Update 2: 68FA2C4406D681FCBB0772D96233540FF194E938 VS Ent with Update 2: C966B61E4E35210C7C186D4EC1A0450B0A0FBF9C
- kelvin0 11y agoAnyone have worked with Cordova? What are the uses cases where I could envision using it (pros, cons)? As I understand it's used to package a Web App into a Mobile specific bundle for deployment?
- polskibus 11y agoI used it to repackage an asp mvc angular app onto mobile. Fairly poor experience, like problems with starting up the emulators, etc. You end up writing a lot of gulp scripts to do the conversion - all manual work. I had to convert from old style csproj app onto Cordova that uses project.json scheme - quite tedious if you ask me.
- hbcondo714 11y agoI've been using Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 for Phonegap and Ionic apps and working on files is noticeably slower than other project types such as asp.net mvc. I just end up using the cli to perform tasks but I'm hoping this update along with the git improvements make things better.
- daxfohl 11y agoHave they fixed the bug that causes it to hang when updating a project file from outside of VS? (e.g. `git checkout x` from the command line)?
- ygra 11y agoDo you use ReSharper? Because in large solutions it's usually that which causes the hang on project changes for me.
- iimpact 11y agoYeah, this happens to me as well. ReSharper caches a lot of stuff, and with the size of our solution, the memory consumption on VS is crazy. This usually leads to a forced restart so that VS acts normally again.
- daxfohl 11y agoI don't, but here's the issue on connect, for whatever that's worth. Quite a number of repros: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback/Details/1377925 https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/Feedback/Details/...
- joshschreuder 11y agoI use Resharper and don't get this issue (didn't get it on Update 1 either) - if the project file is updated, VS will tell me that the project file is updated and ask me if I want to reload the project.
- louthy 11y agoThey don't seem to have fixed much at all, it's still a total dog - massive memory hog, lots of random lock-ups and crashes. The classic is the pop-up telling you it's working on showing you a pop-up. And even introduced new issues (like including files from gitignore in the change-sets). I'm this close (holding fingers very close together) to just dumping the thing for a text editor. VS2015 has been a total car crash as far as I'm concerned.
- ChristianGeek 11y agoNote that there's a bug with C++ projects that causes update 2 to crash repeatedly. Microsoft has acknowledged it and says they're working on a fix. It has something to do with accessing managed code.
- Pxtl 11y agoI'm a little sad to read very little improvement in the raging dumpster-fire that is SQL Server Data Tools.