nodejstools

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.2 RC for Visual Studio. We expect this release to provide significantly improved stability and performance, including reducing out-of-memory crashes seen in prior releases.

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• Our latest Dev Build (06-24-2016) has the same awesomeness as this release!

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.2 RC is available for:

• Visual Studio Community 2015 (requires Update 3 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web (requires Update 3 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above (requires Update 3 or later)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.2 Beta

This is a minor update that contains fixes for several issues identified in the 1.2 Beta release. Specifically:

• #994 Update Installer Gate for NTVS 1.2 RC to target VS 2015 Update 3 RTM or later
• #1099 Don't block install if VS version is below required version
• #1086 Fix survey news showing multiple times and when users opt out
• #1053 Delete ExternalTools directory on Npm Cache Clear
• #1080 Interactive Window busted in Node.js v0.10.x and below
• #1071 fixes of obvious code mistakes
• #1042 Should add newline in Output pane messages, otherwise the user must scroll
• #1097 Add better logging when node is not installed

Known Issues

• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Team Services, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Send us a note or give us a shout-out on twitter!

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.2 Beta for Visual Studio.

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Looking for Visual Studio "15" support?

• Our latest Dev Build (06-18-2016) has the same awesomeness as this release!

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.2 Beta is available for:

• Visual Studio Community 2015 (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above (requires Update 2 or later)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.2 Alpha

We expect this release of NTVS to provide a better user experience and general stability of the product.

Highlights include:

Faster, better ES6 IntelliSense!

Whether you were running into performance issues or craving the latest and greatest JavaScript goodness, the new ES6 IntelliSense experience is now on by default, and better than ever! The new ES6 IntelliSense experience takes advantage of type definition files to provide better and more performant IntelliSense for the most popular Node.js frameworks, such as Commander, Express, jQuery and Knockout.

Whenever you require a new npm package, the associated "typings" will be automatically downloaded to your project.

And so long as the typings are available, you'll be able to see the relevant completions next time you 'require' a module.

❗Known Issue
IntelliSense for locally required files does not currently work, and will be available in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 RTM (tracked by #1076).

As a workaround, try adding a tsconfig.json to the root of your NTVS project with these options:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "allowJs": true,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noEmit": true
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules"]
}

And right click Save As this file into C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TypeScript to replace the existing typescriptServices.js in that directory.

Love it? Hate it? Hungry? 🍔 🍜 🍹 Please, please, please let us know what you think! 🍬

More reliable debugging

Running into flaky or laggy debug experiences? You so want to download this release. We've fixed many miscellaneous issues that should provide an overall better debugging experiences. We're committed to providing the best debugging experience possible, so please let us know how we're doing!

Improved Unit Testing experiences

While it's generally best practice to avoid writing bugs altogether, some of us our not omniscient, and find unit tests to be pretty helpful. 😉 So we've made some improvements to the unit testing experience, including tape support thanks to @jcansdale (#989).

This release also improves support other testing frameworks, including providing a custom mocha path in "mocha.json".

{
    "ui": "tdd",
    "timeout": 300000,
    "reporter": "xunit",
    "path": "optional path to where mocha is installed"
}

.npm everywhere

We gave you .npm commands Node.js Interactive Window, and you told us that's just not enough... It must be everywhere. So now, thanks to #808, we'll finally be able to use npm everywhere, just as it should be.

Significantly improved stability and performance

All across the product numerous issues have been fixed. We expect this release to provide both a much better user experience and improved stability.

Known Issues

• #1076: IntelliSense For Locally Required Files needs VS 2015 Update 3 RTM+
• #928 Error TS5055: Cannot Write file error displayed in error pane when using ES6 Preview Intellisense. This does not effect building or running projects.
• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Team Services, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Send us a note or give us a shout-out on twitter!

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.2 Alpha 2 for Visual Studio.

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Looking for Visual Studio 2015 support?

• Node.js Tools 1.2 Alpha 2 for Visual Studio 2015 (requires Update 2 or higher)

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.2 Alpha 2 is available for:

• Visual Studio "15" Preview
• Visual Studio Community 2015 (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above (requires Update 2 or later)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.2 Alpha

We expect this release of NTVS to provide a better user experience and general stability of the product.

Highlights include:

• Significantly improved memory usage and performance
• Addressed issues with ES6 Preview automatic typings acquisition
• Support for "use strict" in Interactive Window
• Fix Debugger display of JS strings that contain Date strings

Known Issues

• #928 Error TS5055: Cannot Write file error displayed in error pane when using ES6 Preview Intellisense. This does not effect building or running projects.
• #934 Some breakpoints are not resolving with Node 6.1.0. We are investigating this issue. In the meantime, try using Node 6.0.0 or Node 5.x.
• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Team Services, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Give us a shout-out on twitter!

Downloads

Looking for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 support?

• Node.js Tools 1.1.1 for Visual Studio 2013
• Node.js Tools 1.1.1 for Visual Studio 2012

RELEASE NOTES
This is a minor update that contains fixes for several issues identified in the 1.1 release. Specifically:

• #430 Add from existing code should ignore any filepaths that include node_modules and bower_components folders by default
• #604 Runtime syntax error kills Visual Studio
• #690 Fix async debugger issues
• #684 Inserting a newline in a JS file that has an ill-defined for loop throws an NRE
• #664 Experiencing Intermittent IDE Crashes with NodeJS Tools 1.1
• #766 NullReferenceException during Analysis

The links in the 1.1 release below have been updated to point to the new installers. Please see the 1.1 release for more info.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.2 Alpha for Visual Studio.

Downloads

Looking for Visual Studio 2015 support?

• Node.js Tools 1.2 Alpha for Visual Studio 2015 (requires Update 2 or higher)

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.2 Alpha is available for:

• Visual Studio "15" Preview
• Visual Studio Community 2015 (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above (requires Update 2 or later)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.1

ES6 IntelliSense Preview (new analysis engine)

As many of you may already know, we've in the midst of rehauling our JavaScript IntelliSense experience. In NTVS 1.1, we gave you a sneak peek of what's to come, and you gave us a ton of awesome feedback that we've taken to heart.

HIghlights include:

• A more consistent IntelliSense experience for fullstack development
• first-class support for the most popular npm packages
• JsDoc comment support
• improved JSX support (requires Visual Studio "15" Preview)

To learn more about this experience, please visit the ES6 Preview documentation

Project-less debugging of Node.js code via “Open Folder” (requires Visual Studio "15" Preview)

In Visual Studio "15" Preview, we're making it easier to edit and debug from any folder on your machine using "File > Open Folder".

Then you can simply launch debugging for any javascript file in the folder without the need to set up a dedicated Visual Studio project configuration.

More reliable editing and debugging

We expect the 1.2 Alpha release to provide both a much better user experience and improved stability. In particular, it brings increased reliability when debugging asynchronous and source-mapped code, as well as significantly increased stability and performance all around.

(Preliminary) Node.js v6.x support

A stable Node.js v6.x isn't even out yet, but many of our users love to use the latest and greatest, and we've already tested and added preliminary support for it, so please let us know if you run into any issues!

Known Issues

• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Team Services, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Thank you!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Give us a shout-out on twitter!

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio.

Please check out our NTVS 1.1 release blog post to learn more about the highlights of this release!

Downloads

Looking for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 support?

• Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio 2013
• Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio 2012

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.1 is available for:

• Visual Studio Community 2015
• Visual Studio Community 2013
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web
• Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above
• Visual Studio 2013 Professional or above (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2012 Professional or above (requires Update 4)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.1 RC3

This is a minor update that contains fixes for several issues identified in the RC3 release.

Highlights include:

• Stability improvements
  • #552 Gruntfile.js failed to load
  • #584 VS2015 crashes if change code while debugging w/ Node.js v5
  • #582 VS 2013 Crash NullReferenceException
• IntelliSense experience improvements
  • #566 No IntelliSense after npm install with a new project

We expect the 1.1 release to provide both a much better user experience and improved stability. We would like to thank all of the people who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Known Issues

• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Online, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Give us a shout-out on twitter!

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

We are pleased to announce the release of Node.js Tools 1.1 RC3 for Visual Studio.

Downloads

Looking for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 support?

• Node.js Tools 1.1 RC3 for Visual Studio 2013
• Node.js Tools 1.1 RC3 for Visual Studio 2012

RELEASE NOTES
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS) is a free, open-source plug-in that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a broad range of features including editing, IntelliSense, cross platform and remote debugging, edit and continue, npm integration, profiling, TypeScript, and an integrated REPL window. NTVS also includes a set of project templates that make it easy to quickly create and deploy websites to Microsoft Azure Websites or Cloud Services.

NTVS 1.1 RC3 is available for:

• Visual Studio Community 2015
• Visual Studio Community 2013
• Visual Studio 2015 Express for Web
• Visual Studio 2013 Express for Web (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2015 Professional or above
• Visual Studio 2013 Professional or above (requires Update 2 or later)
• Visual Studio 2012 Professional or above (requires Update 4)

Note that NTVS is not available for Visual Studio Express for Windows (or Windows Desktop)

Changes since 1.1 RC2.1

This is a minor update that contains fixes for several issues identified in the RC2.1 release. In this release, we've fixed issues from all across the product.

Highlights include:

• More consistent debug-attach and remote debugging [#362, #246, #548, #423]
• Significant performance and stability improvements [#521, #427, #369, #392, #508, #70]
• IntelliSense experience improvements
  • Default to requiring tab or enter to commit completions [#310]
  • Visual Studio locks up when I create project from Existing Node.js [#427]
  • Added new options in Options > Node.js > IntelliseSense to customize any of this behavior
• More reliable npm integration [#493, #511, #521]
• Fix function source code view during profiling [#299]
• Support for VS2015 Update 1 [#530]

Numerous bug fixes

All across the product numerous issues have been fixed. We expect the RC3 release to provide both a much better user experience and improved stability. We would like to thank all of the people who took their time to report issues, send feedback for this release. We very much appreciate your help!

Known Issues

Planned for NTVS 1.1 RTW

• #566 IntelliSense sometimes yields incomplete completion sets with new projects. The workaround is to install a new package.
• #552 Gruntfile.js failed to load: System.NotImplementedException at ..DependentFileNode.GetEditLabel()
• #361 VS2015 sometimes crashes when updating npm packages [external, to be fixed in VS2015 Update 1 RTW]
• #125 Attach debugger to Azure deployment via Server Explorer fails. You can attach manually as outlined on the Advanced Debugging page.

Other

• #418 The TypeScript template does not contain the definitions for the Mocha test framework. Download and reference the typings manually as described in the issue to avoid type errors in Mocha tests.
• #434 Profiling does not resolve function names if using 64-bit Node. Install and profile 32-bit Node to work around this issue.
• ReSharper is known to cause code-completion, memory, and performance issues when enabled alongside NTVS. We recommend disabling at least ReSharper's JavaScript functionality if you are having problems.
• NTVS does not fully support build and test features of Visual Studio Online, but we are working to improve the experience. If you are having trouble, please file an issue so we can get to the bottom of it.
• We are constantly working to improve our code-completion and formatting to support the wide variety of modules and code styles. Please file an issue if you are running into unexpected behavior.

For a full list of issues, head on over to our issue tracker

Help make NTVS Better

NTVS is an open source project and we’re always willing to take high quality contributions. If you’d like to contribute, please check out our issue tracker for outstanding bugs and features which can be implemented. You can also help make NTVS better by reporting issues or helping out your fellow users on GitHub.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the release? Give us a shout-out on twitter!

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.

See source code history for information about recent fixes.

This release is based on 9ef6b82. It has been signed and virus scanned, but has not been extensively tested and is not recommended for production environments.

Please report any bugs that you find in this build, and include the filename of the installer you used in your report.

You can also build NTVS from the latest sources.