Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2015 is the tenth major release of Visual Studio, released on 20 July 2015. It replaces legacy .NET compilers with "Roslyn", which also introduces code suggestions. It also supports JSON files and can grab a schema list from Schema Store. It also replaces the previous Visual Studio editions with Community, Professional and Enterprise.

It is also the last version of Visual Studio to not use the Visual Studio Installer to install components.

Roslyn
This release, in favor of replacing legacy .NET compilers, introduces Roslyn, an open-source .NET compiler. With this change also comes code refactoring suggestions, which can be anything from code refactors to unused declarations.

JSON editor
This release also introduces native JSON support, including JSON schemas from Schema Store.