After playing with VS 2015 for a week, I am pretty happy and impressed by it. It has been greatly improved over VS 2013. Don't forget to install Color Schema Editor. It comes with 11 color themes. Solarized (Dark) is my favorite color theme.
What’s new in C# 6?
1.
Roslyn compiler. Now you can ship your API with
analyzer and fixer.
2.
Using static... for example using static
System.Console;
3.
Immutable object. Now it’s so much easier with
getter-only properties with readonly backup fields. You can set the getter-only
properties in the constructor.
4. property Lamda expression.
5.
$ sign to string formatting. So now you can
string.Format($”{x} – {Y}”);
6.
Keyword for nameof , now you can use the
name of the variable and it’s very refactoring friendly.
7.
Null checker ?.
8.
Added finally to await.
What’s new in IntelliTrace in VS 2015
1. You
can filter by Category like ADO, gestures.
2. You
can zoom in the timeline.
3. You
can view historical stack trace code.
4. Standalone
version of IntelliTrace.
What’s new in WPF in 2015
1. Blend
for Visual Studio 2015
2. In-place
change the template without showing the different document
3. UI
debugging tools for WPF
In
previous versions of Visual Studio, sharing code meant going to a website to
manually publish a repository, jumping through a myriad of workflows and manual
steps like creating accounts and services just to start sharing code. In Visual
Studio 2015, the process of getting your local repository onto Visual Studio
Online (VSO) has been dramatically simplified.
