How to try a new Visual Studio “14” CTP without installation?

Recently , a preliminary version of the next generation of Visual Studio codenamed “14” was introduced . Visual Studio “14” CTP offers today to try out some of the features and capabilities that will be available to developers soon. Among them:

• new features in C #, Visual Basic and Roslyn
• next generation ASP.NET platform
• next generation C ++ 11/14 compiler

About some new features of Visual Studio “14” CTP have already been written on Habré ( read the article ). This preliminary version does not have a go-live license and should not be used in commercial development; moreover, it is recommended to install it separately from the working environment and other versions of Visual Studio.
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However, there is a very simple way to try all the Visual Studio “14” CTP tokens and without self-installation — using a ready-made VM image from the Microsoft Azure Gallery.

Access to Visual Studio “14” CTP in Azure

Get free access to Azure by activating a trial for 30 days . Or activate your free access to Azure if you have an MSDN subscription. After activation, or if you already have an account, go to the Microsoft Azure portal .

From the Azure portal you can create different virtual machines based on Windows or Linux. To do this, you can use the galleries of ready-made images. Among such images for developers is available the image of a virtual machine with a pre-installed new Visual Studio “14” CTP.



Select this image and click “Next”. Fill in the required parameters in the following steps:



After these steps, your virtual machine with the VS “14” CTP installed will be created and running. Wait a while until the virtual machine is deployed in your account and connect to it via RDP, selecting the appropriate VM from the list and clicking on the “Connect” button on the bottom control panel.



Now you can launch and try a new Visual Studio “14” CTP at any time directly from the Microsoft Azure cloud.



Moreover, you can do it on any of the platforms for which there are RDP clients: Windows Store, Windows Phone, iOS, Android, OSX and so on.

useful links

Below you will find a list of useful links from the previous post on Habré :

• Download Visual Studio "14"
• Visual Studio "14" release notes
• New in C #
• New to Visual Basic
• New in ASP.NET vNext
• New in C ++ (huge list)
• The future of .NET and ASP.NET on the server, in the cloud and in the phone

Be sure to participate in the proposal and discussion of new features of Visual Studio on the User Voice portal and share your feedback with developers through the feedback function from the Visual Studio development environment.

Enjoy researching new features!