As Microsoft Learning slates two exams for the MCSD: UWP for retirement next year, two more skills-focused exams will take their places.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/18/2016
New updates mainly fall into the performance and reliability categories, but the .NET engineering teams also inlcude an update to the .NET Core SDK, dubbed 'Preview 1.'
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/16/2016
The support and community development portals for Microsoft developers and IT specialists is getting a cloud upgrade, starting with a preview of services around Microsoft's enterprise mobility technologies. Bonus: It's being open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/05/2016
Microsoft Azure has become one of the top cloud computing environments and we've got 14 essential tools for integrating Azure right into your development environment.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 05/02/2016
Latest updates allows more incremental improvements to work items, such as alerts for keeping up with them and ability to move between projects, as well as the simple act of changing their types.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/19/2016
The online cross-platform editor is now a finished product, now that the company has appended its name with a version 1.0.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2016
Microsoft said it will add tooling to Hyper-V containers in Windows 10 that will allow developers to bypass complex VM machinations to support development activities. Coming PowerShell module for Docker is also aimed at devs.
A new tool that ingests every piece of Application Insights and turns it into reportable information is now getting its public preview. It's also got a name.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
Microsoft's Qi Lu and his team showed off a few new developer features that will make Office 365 integration a much easier prospect, including Skype SDKs that open up communication capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2016
It's limited what VSDE member can do with it. Also: SQL Server 2016, when released later this year, will also be free.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2016
The second day of Build highlighted the "cloud-first" part of Microsoft's mission. Plus: Xamarin is set free and is open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2016
Microsoft's Satya Nadella expands the company's vision with the concept of "conversations as a platform." That's where Skype, HoloLens, and Cortana now need developers to usher those tools deeper into the conversation,, which means tools aplenty now and to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2016
Docker last week announced a beta release of Mac and Windows developer tools for working with its Docker container technology.
HoloLens, anyone? How about developing for Xbox apps? Not sure if those will be featured, but Microsoft developers are expecting an expanded device universe for which to develop new apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2016
SONiC is the company's open source framework that will allow application developers to extend network switches to work across disparate hardware platforms.
Announced at EclipseCon: More tools and support for open source Eclipse platform coming in Microsoft's Azure and Visual Studio tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/08/2016
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this week.
When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Visual Studio developers who are part of the Essentials Program now have access to more than $300-worth of Azure credits over a year, as well as the addition of mobile development courses from Xamarin University.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/04/2016
The Windows-based Big Data tools and frameworks suite adds support for Apache Spark, Apache HBase and Scientific Python.