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Visual Studio 2015 Update 2

Visual Studio 2015 updates provide continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the main product release. These releases are aligned with core software development trends, ensuring developers and development teams always have access to the best solution for building modern applications.

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 includes a variety of capability improvements and bug fixes. To find out what's new, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 Release Notes. For a list of fixed bugs and known issues, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 MSDN Article.

Update 2 is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2015.

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Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 – Multi-language

Visual Studio Code for Windows

Code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform—Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Visual Studio Code for Mac OS

Code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform—Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Visual Studio Code for Linux

Code editing redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform—Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

ReSharper

Created by JetBrains

ReSharper is a popular developer productivity extension for Microsoft Visual Studio. It automates most of what can be automated in your coding routines. It finds compiler errors, runtime errors, redundancies, code smells, and possible improvements right as you type, suggesting intelligent corrections for them.

Microsoft Azure HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio

Created by AmazedSaint

HD Insight Tool Window allows you to connect with HDInsight localhost or Azure Hadoop Hive, generate code for tables for performing Linq To Hive, and run Hive Queries from Visual Studio and see results.

Web Essentials 2013 for Update 5

Created by Mads Kristensen

Web Essentials extends Visual Studio 2013 with a lot of new features that web developers have been missing for many years. If you ever write CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Markdown, TypeScript, CoffeeScript or LESS, then you will find many useful features that make your life as a developer easier.

PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2013

Created by Adam Driscol

PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio brings the richness of the Visual Studio development experience together with the power of PowerShell.

Python Tools for Visual Studio

Created by HPCToolsGuy

PTVS is a free/OSS plugin that turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. PTVS supports CPython, IronPython, editing, browsing, Intellisense, mixed Python/C++ debugging, remote linux/MacOS debugging, profiling, multiple REPL’s, IPython, Django, Flask, Bottle, ... and cloud computing with client libraries for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Productivity Power Tools 2013

Created by Visual Studio Product Team

A set of extensions to Visual Studio Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.

DevExpress

Created by DevExpress

ASP.NET AJAX Controls and MVC Extensions that make up the DevExpress ASP.NET Subscription have been engineered to address the UI, analytics and reporting requirements for a broad range of solutions targeting all major web browsers. Download your free trial today or explore the individual control categories that ship as part of this subscription.

Xamarin Platform

Created by Xamarin

Develop amazing Android apps with C# and .NET using Xamarin.Android. Full access to the Android APIs, reuse existing code and your favorite .NET libraries, and create, build, debug, and deploy apps from Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2013 Tools for Unity

Created by Microsoft

Write and debug your Unity 3D games inside Microsoft Visual Studio.

GitHub Extension for Visual Studio

Created by GitHub

A Visual Studio Extension that brings the GitHub Flow into Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (Visual Studio 2013.5)

Visual Studio 2013 Updates provide continuous value to customers, adding new capabilities year-round to features in the main product release. These releases will be aligned with the core software development trends in the market, ensuring developers and development teams always have access to the best solution for building modern applications.

Support for Visual Studio 2013 is only provided on this current update, which is considered the Visual Studio 2013 Service Pack. The Visual Studio 2013 RTM version, released in November of 2013, will only be supported for one year after the release of this current update. For more information see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Policy.

For more information, see the Visual Studio Release Notes and the Visual Studio Update KB Article.

Updates for these other products are also available:

This update is the latest in a cumulative series of feature additions and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013.

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Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 – Multi-language

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Developer Pack

The .NET Framework 4.5.1 Developer Pack installs the multi-targeting pack for .NET Framework 4.5.1. Developers can build applications targeting the .NET Framework 4.5.1 using either Visual Studio 2012 or third party IDEs. You need to download the web installer instead of this package if you intend to redistribute .NET Framework 4.5.1.

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1 Developer Pack – Multi-language

Visual Studio Test Professional 2013

Visual Studio Test Professional 2013 integrates testers and other stakeholders into the development workflow to enable in-context collaboration with developers.

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Visual Studio Test Professional 2013 Language Pack

The Visual Studio 2013 Language Pack is a free add-on that you can use to switch the language that's displayed in the Visual Studio user interface.

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Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013

Team Explorer is the client software that you use to access Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2013 functionality from Visual Studio.

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Team Explorer for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Language Pack

The Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 Language Pack is a free add-on that you can use to switch the language that's displayed in the Team Explorer user interface.

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Remote Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5

These cumulative updates to Visual Studio 2013 include a variety of bug fixes and capability improvements. For more information, see the Visual Studio Release Notes and the Visual Studio Update KB Article.

The Remote Tools are intended for computers that don't have Visual Studio so that you can debug, test, and profile apps that are executing on them. Visual Studio must be installed on the development computer that's connected to, or uses the data collected from the remote computer. Connecting to the remote debugger included in the Remote Tools is supported in Visual Studio Ultimate 2013, Visual Studio Premium 2013, Visual Studio Professional 2013, Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows, and Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop.

Connection to the test features in the Remote Tools requires Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 or Visual Studio Test Professional 2013.

The Remote Tools also enable the installation of a developer license, deployment, debugging, and profiling of Windows Store apps on Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.

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Visual Studio 2013 SDK

The Visual Studio 2013 SDK includes project templates, tools, tests, and reference assemblies that are required to build extensions for Visual Studio 2013.

Visual Studio 2013 SDK - English
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