Working With Visual Studio 2015 Update 3

In this post, we will see the new updates of Visual Studio 2015, setting up the environment and so on. Microsoft announced the new release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 on June 27 2016. The Visual Studio team addressed the known issues and reported issues, which are fixed on this release as well as an improved performance and stability of the product.

You can easily update the new release and download the available link, below:

What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 Update 3?

If you want to know what are all the things that are new or changed or improved for Visual Studio 3 with this release, you can see the list of the updates, as given below:

  • Tools for Apache Cordova
  • Developer Analytics Tools
  • Debugging and Diagnostics
  • Visual Studio IDE
  • Tools for Universal Windows Apps
  • Architecture Tools
  • Visual C++
  • Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
  • Web Developer Tools
  • TypeScript
  • C# and Visual Basic
  • Team Explorer
  • Xamarin

Setting up the Environment on your PC

If you want to know how to install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, the step-by-step guidelines are as follows:
Double Click “vs2015.3” and run it

The Microsoft Visual Studio window will open and initialize setup,

setup

You can select the features you want to install into your system and click next button.

setup

You can see the list of features which are selected. Update some new features and upgrade the old features. Click UPDATE button.

setup

Installing features are in progress, as shown in the screenshot, given below:

setup

After the installation setup completes, click Restart Now button.

restart

Reference

Conclusion

I hope you understood the Visual Studio Update 3 installation steps. I have covered all the required things. If you find anything which I missed in this article, please let me know. Please share your valuable feedback or suggestions.

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