If you are a current user of Visual Studio 2013 and Xamarin, and you are wanting to start playing around with the new features in Visual Studio 2015 Preview, including the new Android emulator, then this post is for you.  I spent most of my morning trying to get this to work, so I will save you the troubles that I went through and just tell you what you need to do.  This should make your life so much easier.

First, you…

So, I just found a feature in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview that will probably be one of my most favorite and most used.  This feature is plain out AMAZBALLS!  Yeah, that’s right… I said it… AMAZBALLS!  What is the magical feature?  It’s the XAML Peek and Edit feature.  Wait.. what?  Let me explain.

Let’s say you have a massive XAML application, in my case it would be a WPF application, and you have…

Unless you were living under a rock today, you have probably heard about the availability of the new Visual Studio 2015 Preview.  Now, your first question is can I install it side-by-side with Visual Studio 2013?  Well according to Scott Guthrie, yes you can.  So I did.  I figured I would walk you through the process that I went through.

The first thing you have to download the Visual Studio 2015 Preview.  Here are some of…