Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Available

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I am very excited to see the return of an IDE-less release, just the compiler, libraries, etc. Very cool!

Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 (Pre-release). If you want to build your C++ projects targeting Windows desktop without having Visual Studio installed on your computer, Microsoft Visual C++ Build Tools 2015 provides the required tools: C++ compilers, libraries, build scripts, Windows SDKs. This Community Technology Preview ships with the same C++ compilers and libraries packaged with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC (2015.1).

I wonder what the android experience is like in VS? I had to do android studio stuff at uni about 7 months ago and it was awful.

The last time I did any Android work it was painful. That was back with Eclipse though, I have heard Android Studio improves things and now with things like Intel HAXM apparently the emulator isn't painfully slow.

The best experience, by a long shot, is Windows Phone. Shame nobody uses it. iOS isn't too bad with Xcode if you live fully in the Apple world (Obj-C, Swift) but Xcode is funky with C++ which can be frustrating at times.

Microsoft have seriously upped their C++ game in recent years. Now with VS Community being free for the majority of people there has never been a better time to give things another shot if you were put off MS in the past.

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