Introduction
Microsoft has announced Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .Net 4.6 Preview and both are available for download. The announcements were part of the keynote which is held in New York for the Microsoft Connect event on Nov 12,2014.
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015 has many new and exciting features to build applications across multiple platforms(from Windows to Linux, iOS and even Android), cloud development, IDE enhancements and many more.
From below list we will see high level new features in these release.
- Open-source .NET compiler platform(Roslyn)
- Visual Studio C++ for Cross-Platform Development
- Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
- Create ASP.NET 5 website that can run on multiple platforms
- Language/Library Features
- Visual Studio Emulator for Android
Download:
Note: These preview builds should not be used in production environments.