Is there the concept of a wiki in Visual Studio 2013 online? - visual-studio-2013

I've had a browse around the Visual Studio 2013 online capabilities but can't see any wiki as such. By wiki I mean somewhere to capture enduring product related info e.g. info on how to support product xyz, how to setup a new dev workstation, how to workaround that annoying "msshrtmi.dll" Azure bug that continually crops up. Stuff like that.
Currently using Google sites wiki which is awful!

We have launched a set of features to enable a Markdown-based project documentation solution. Users can now edit and create their VSO project docs right in the browser.
Do check out our blog post and video here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/12/18/improved-welcome-wiki-experience.aspx
Let us know if you have any comments on the features!
Yi-Wei Ang
Program Manager
VSO Enterprise Social

Unfortunately the Visual Studio Online does not support wiki for project now. I miss this feature too. You can vote for the feature on uservoice to accelerate its development.
Update: Issue is completed on 9 January 2015. Thanks to developers and to all who voted. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2014/12/18/improved-welcome-wiki-experience.aspx

There is now a Wiki from Microsoft DevLabs for Visual Studio Team Services in the Visual Studio Marketplace. At the time of writing it is still in beta. When it is finished it will be installed as an integral part of Visual Studio Team Services.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-devlabs.wiki

As of 7/6/2017, Microsoft has released the public preview of the Visual Studio Team Services Wiki. The Visual Studio Marketplace extension has now been deprecated.
You can read more about the capabilities of the Wiki in VS TS here:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/07/06/33855/

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Is there any way to install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2019 (not Visual Studio Code)?

I am looking in the marketplace but it seems only available for vscode?
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.copilot
GitHub Copilot now available for Visual Studio 2022
https://github.blog/2022-03-29-github-copilot-now-available-for-visual-studio-2022/#:~:text=Once%20you%20have%20received%20an,install%20the%20GitHub%20Copilot%20extension.
[Edit]
It is no more free now, You can have a free trial period of a month, then it is paid one.
[Edit - 10/09/2022]
It is available for Free (Education purpose)
For Students (Link)
For Teachers (Link).
Github Copilot is currently only available as an extension for Visual Studio Code, with other integrated development environments to potentially follow.
No, not at the time... The only way is trying with Resharper, beacuase it uses the same base of IntelliJ, so you can install GitHub Copilot too

Can't find "My Work" option for code review in Visual Studio 2015 community edition

I'm trying to request a code review from another developer on a project hosted in Visual Studio Online using git.
I'm using Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which according to this Microsoft comparison page, supports code review (Under the "Collaboration Tools" heading).
Is this an option I need to turn on? I've looked in the Team Explorer panel, under the Project section and all I see is "Changes", "Branches", "Sync" and "Settings". From the videos I've watched, I expected to see "My Work" in that section too.
I had this problem also. Apparently My Work is only available in certain versions of Visual Studio:
My Work appears only when you have installed Visual Studio Premium or Visual Studio Ultimate.
Also, it won't show up for Git. Only for Team Foundation VC.
MSDN: Work in Team Explorer
Edit: I missed the link in the question, but looks like MS documentation might not be correct (surprise, surprise!) on one or the other. From that link it looks like there is not even a Premium or Ultimate version of 2015 offered. Very confusing. I'm guessing the page I referenced is not correct, even though it says it's for 2015. So I'd assume it's only available in Enterprise version, since in my own case, it did not show up in the Professional version.

Is Xamarin free in Visual Studio 2015?

Currently I explore the Visual Studio 2015 RC and realized that Xamarin Studio is integrated into Visual Studio and its installer. My Question is: Is Xamarin from now on free in Visual Studio?
Updated March 31st, 2016:
We have announced that Visual Studio now includes Xamarin at no extra cost, including Community Edition, which is free for individual developers, open source projects, academic research, education, and small professional teams. There is no size restriction on the Community Edition and offers the same features as the Pro & Enterprise editions. Read more about the update here: https://blog.xamarin.com/xamarin-for-all/
Be sure to browse the store on how to download and get started: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/ and there is a nice FAQ section: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/
Yes, Xamarin is now free in Visual Studio
I asked the same question to Xamarin support team, they replied with following:
You can develop an app with Xamarin for commercial usage - there is no extra charge! We only require you to comply with Visual Studio's licensing terms,
which means that in companies of less than 250 employees with less than $1million USD annual revenue, you may use Visual Studio completely free (including Xamarin) for up to 5 developers.
However after you pass those barriers, you would need a Visual Studio license (which includes Xamarin).
Refer the screenshot below.
Visual Studio 2015 does include Xamarin Starter edition https://xamarin.com/starter
Xamarin Starter is free and allows developers to build and publish simple apps with the following limitations:
Contain no more than 128k of compiled user code (IL)
Do NOT call out to native third party libraries (i.e., developers may not P/Invoke into C/C++/Objective-C/Java)
Built using Xamarin.iOS / Xamarin.Android (NOT Xamarin.Forms)
Xamarin Starter installs automatically with Visual Studio 2015, and works with VS 2012, 2013, and 2015 (including Community Editions).
When your app outgrows Starter, you will be offered the opportunity to upgrade to a paid subscription, which you can learn more about here: https://store.xamarin.com/
Seems like now it's free for small teams and students, according to Scott Hanselman post https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/715568774418595840
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/pricing/
Visual Studio Community
FREE
A free, full-featured and extensible IDE for Windows users to create
Android and iOS apps with Xamarin, as well as Windows apps, web apps,
and cloud services.
Students
OSS development
Small teams
and
Xamarin Studio Community
FREE
A free, full-featured IDE for Mac users to create Android and iOS apps
using Xamarin.
Students
OSS development
Small teams
If you go to the visualstudio.com Visual Studio 2015 RC cross-platform and mobile apps page, then read and scroll to the bottom, it appears that Microsoft is including Xamarin, and upon installing it you do have, as James said, the Xamarin Starter edition. In 2015 RC go to Tools, Xamarin Account to see your Xamarin license. I do not know the limitations, or any expiration date, of this Starter Xamarin Account.
Still, I don't know about you, but the Visual Studio 2015 RC "Community" edition I installed expires in less than 180 days. (Check the Help menu, go to "About...", and click on your license status to check.)
Let's say Xamarin Starter edition is free, but Visual Studio 2015 "Community" has an expiration date. So the bigger question might be whether Visual Studio 2015 "Community" will be free.
Without Xamarin though, Microsoft is offering C++ tools for cross-platform development, but scroll down to the bottom of the page and you might be surprised or confused at the download link description.
Visual studio community edition is bundled with xamarin and which is free as well.
No, it only contains a free 30 day trial. But I think there would be a package if you buy Visual Studio + Xamarin.
Xamarin is now owned by Microsoft So it completely free to use on Windows and mac as well.
Yes, Microsoft announced that xamrin is now free with VS15 and other latest versions.
Visual Studio is now including Xamarin also. You can download Xamarin Studio but this link
Make sure to get the Community Edition. it's Free to use

ASP.NET-5 in Visual Studio 2013

Can I create ASP.NET-5 projects in Visual Studio 2013 somehow?
Also share please links with documentation, examples or anything that could help to create project using mvc6 that used to be on web api.
The simple answer is not. I'm pretty sure, vNext is such big change in Microsoft technologies that they will not put any effort in adding that vs2013, you can get vs2015 community edition is very complete free version of visual studio.
this link is very good starting point.

Where can I find the Visual Studio 2010 RTM release notes?

Question
Where can I find a list of changes introduced to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RTM that were added since Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC?
In fact, I'm only interested in changes related to MS Test Manager 2010 and Coded UI Tests.
Where I have looked so far
I have
searched the Internet,
looked for a readme.txt in the installation folder,
looked into the Visual Studio help (F1) and
browsed the "What's new in Visual Studio 2010" section on MSDN.
No luck.
Found Scott Guthrie's blog post Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released, but that's not exactly what I am looking for. It's not a changelog since VS2010RC.
I suppose there is no such file because they made too many changes to document and hand out to end users. But if there was, I'd be glad if someone could point me to it. Thanks.
I suppose actually there are no interesting changes except improving performance and fixing some bugs that are major enough to accept risk of changes. I think so because they actively refuse any change requests in Microsoft Connect and in blogs saying that product is already designed, developed and tested and now they are working only on performance.

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