New in Visual Studio 2015

Features of Visual Studio 2015

There are many features in Visual Studio 2015. In this article we will discuss top 5 features of Visual studio 2015.

1. Debug Lambda Expressions

The best feature in VS2015 that developer is waiting for so long. Earlier we were not able to debug Lambda expression. Now you can debug the code and see the result in Immediate window as shown in below snapshot.




2. Yellow Light Bulb


This feature is similar to Resharper. It will give you suggestions. Here in below shapshot when you click on Yellow bulb, it will show some suggestion related to missing reference.

3. IntelliSense for Angular


Visual studio will display the Intellisense for Angular. Just write ng in div tag. It will show the list of ng tags as shown in screenshot below.

4. IntelliSense for Bower and NPM

In Asp.Net 5 project, you will find Bower, Gulp and NPM in new template.
Microsoft provide Intellisense for both Bower and NPM.

Bower:  Bower is for client side packaging for e.g. Jquery and Angular.
NPM: NPM is for developer tools for e.g. Grunt, Gulp

5. References Counts

On the top of each Method, Property and Class you will find reference count. This feature is available in Visual Studio 2013 updated version. However, you will find here in Visual Studio 2015 as well.



When you click on 4 references text, you will see list of references as shown in screenshot below.

This is all about the article. I hope you like it.