What’s New in Visual Studio Update 1 for .NET Managed Languages

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Hold on to your hats, cowboys and cowgirls! A lot of exciting things are coming out of the .NET Managed Languages team for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1. Read on to learn more about new IDE features, interactive C#, new code analysis management, Visual F# improvements, and the new F5 experience for Roslyn open source development.

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New Editor Features

Now that we have Roslyn in Visual Studio 2015, we can leverage its power to create the smartest IDE out there. The improvements we’ve made to the IDE experience in Update 1 relate chiefly to navigation and refactoring:

  • Go To Implementation. The most notable change we made with regards to navigation is the introduction of “Go To Implementation.” You can now navigate from a base class or type to its various implementations. This saves a lot of time when searching in large solutions—when using Find All References returns a long list.
  • Convert Method to Property. We added the refactoring that now allows you to press “Ctrl+.” inside a method with no arguments and convert it into a property. We’ll even notice if you have a pair of Get/Set methods and convert them into a single property. This refactoring cascades throughout your solution so you don’t have to manually fix this change elsewhere.
  • VB Go to Definition and Object Browser. After hearing feedback from many of you, we added an option to make it easy to restore the behavior where VB Go to Definition would navigate to the Object Browser. You can find this option under "Tools->Options->Text Editor->Basic->Advanced->Navigate to Object Browser for symbols defined in metadata".
  • VB Commands for Next/Previous Member Fix. Many VB customers noticed that we forgot to implement support for navigate to the next and previous method. Oops. We brought that back, and added support for C# as well. Look for it on the Edit menu.
  • Go To/Peek Definition Bug Fix. We fixed this issue where you had to change your tabs to spaces in order to Peek Definition or Go To Definition. Huzzah! (Could you tell that Roslyn’s coding style is to use spaces instead of tabs? ;))

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