Visual Studio 2015 Preview Is Now Available

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45 points·cremno··8 comments

Something I am very interest in is this bit

"you’ll find some new things in here, including a new Visual Studio Emulator for Android and support for building Android applications using C++ based off of Clang and LLVM."

Does this mean what I think it means? VS will have first class support for Clang/LLVM? Will it be restricted to just Android projects or can I take a normal C++ project and compile with Clang and MSVC?

I think for now, it's just Android, probably so it'll work nicely with NDK.

I linked to the VC++ blog post as there wasn't a post on the official Visual Studio blog yet. So if C++ isn't your thing or you're interested in other changes to VS, there is one now: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/11/12/visu...

Wow, it's great that this only requires Windows 7. Its predecessor requires Windows 8, which I just installed today purely for the purpose of having Visual Studio. My only criticism is I wish it had come out half a day earlier...

I'm running VS2013 on a Win7 kernel (technically, Windows Server 2008 R2). I thought Win8 was only required if you wanted to develop Win8 aka "Metro" apps.

That's true. Running VS2013 Update 3 on Win7 right now. Can't do Win8 apps.

Yup. The wording of the requirements on their page is a bit odd. I had the same confusion.

Ah, VS2013 Express for Windows refused to install on Windows 7 (which is the one for developing Windows Phone apps, my area of interest). Perhaps this requirement has not changed then.

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