NTVS v1.3 Alpha

[mousetraps]

🏃 in progress and preliminary planning notes for next release.

This release will ship for:

• VS 2015 (Dev14)
• VS "15" Preview (Dev15)

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• ♨️ red-hots (like the candy!): should happen this week, otherwise may impede future efforts
• 👥 external dependency: requires coordination
• 🚫 blocked
• 👑 nice to have

"Big Rocks"

Product

Major platform improvements (VS "15")

• Support VS "15" Lightweight Install Experience #821 Lightweight Visual Studio Installer (:busts_in_silhouette: VS Platform - pm: tims, dev: huyn)
  • ♨️ Create modern NTVS extension #954 Create modern NTVS extension
  • ♨️ Update build / signing scripts to build for VS "15" lightweight installer #955 Update build / signing scripts to build for lightweight installer
  • ♨️ Appear as component in VS "15" Preview installer feed #956 Appear in VS "15" Preview Installer Feed
  • ♨️ Verify chaining in Salsa with Lightweight VS installer #957 Verify chaining in partner dependencies (Salsa, Web Tools) with Lightweight VS installer
• 👑 Improve File > Open Folder IntelliSense experience (:busts_in_silhouette: VS Platform - wibu)
  • Take ownership of debug adapter code
  • Investigate File > Open Folder experiences #1112 Investigate open Qs

Improved ES6 / IntelliSense experiences

• Enable ES6 IntelliSense in Node.js Interactive Window #1090 Enable ES6 IntelliSense in Node.js Interactive Window ( 👥 Roslyn, 👥 TypeScript)

Improved build and deployment experiences

• 👑 Investigate hooking up task runner with existing project system

Improved Stability and Performance

• Investigate and fix miscellaneous stability issues

User Feedback and engagement

• Agree upon and add any additional telemetry points #965 Agree upon and add any additional telemetry points

(Mostly) Code Happiness

• CTI runs
• driving dev build usage 💡

Targets (subject to change)

• 7/22: "Big Rocks" complete
• 7/25-7/29: Stabilization and release activities
• TBD: Release

[mousetraps]

Closing this, as "Alpha" has been released with Visual Studio "15" Preview 4 as part of the Node.js workload. The lightweight install work was relatively involved and we had some other competing priorities, so we didn't quite finish up with everything, but more to come in our 1.3 Beta plan