ImportantAll prior releases of the Tools for Apache Cordova are incompatible with Update 5. If you have previously installed a Tools for Apache Cordova CTP extension, you must uninstall that extension before installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. If you require Apache Cordova support, we encourage you to try.Download Visual Studio 2013To download Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, click on the download button. The files are downloaded from our free Dev Essentials subscription-based site.
See the page for information on our free comprehensive developer program and services.Visual Studio 2013 Update 5released on July 20, 2015 What's New in this Release Cloud-based load testing from Azure datacenters worldwideSetting up the infrastructure required to run load testing by using the Visual Studio Team Foundation Service just got easier: Now, you can perform cloud-based load testing from any of the supported Azure datacenters around the world.For more information about choosing a location for your load test, see. Current iteration query tokenYou now can run queries in Visual Studio with the @currentIteration token on Visual Studio Online or Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015. Team Project Rename support for Local WorkspacesWe included the ability to update after renaming a team project. Performing a get or check-in automatically corrects the workspace mapping so that it uses the new team project name.For more information about renaming a team project, see. Bug FixesDebugger. We have added support for capturing depth buffers on version 9.3 hardware. This enables support for graphics debugging Unity-based applications that run on Windows Phone.Visual Studio IDE.
A critical notification in the Notification Hub may indicate that you must obtain or renew a developer license. If you dismiss this notice, and then you open another project, the critical notification appears again.
When you build a Windows Store application that requires WinRT registrations, you no longer receive the System.TypeLoadException exception at runtime. Assume that you have set your default browser to Spartan on Windows 10 Insider Preview. When you press F1 on a keyword or a tool window, you may find all online help calls now fail and you cannot get to any online help content. When you have been previously connected to another collection, you could not branch unless Visual Studio is restarted.
NoteFollow the steps in this section carefully. Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly.