Microsoft's programming tools suite features get locked for its release to manufacturing later this month, and the company will simultaneously hold a number of online events and demos to formally introduce the tools to the world.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/29/2015
At Visual Studio Live! in San Francisco, keynote speaker Kris Lankford urges developers working with C#, ASP.NET, and a number of Microsoft dev tools to embrace the cloud or get left behind.
Microsoft announced pricing cuts for volume users starting June 1 while Application Insights is in public preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/04/2015
In the real world, you'll often need to display constant and repeating data, a.k.a. Master/Detail pages. Custom templates are the cleanest, simplest way for you to manage them.
The Visual Studio Code Team improves a few features of the portable code editor -- in particular, public issue tracking and centralized feedback channnel -- while still in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/19/2015
Next generation of the Microsoft Build automation system is now in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online Sprint 82.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2015
Microsoft believes Windows 10 will be big for consumers, and an even bigger opportunity for developers. The company trotted out nine more solutions that should keep developers busy.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/01/2015
Just in time for Build, the Visual Studio Team has delivered the first set of release candidates for a number of tools in the Visual Studio 2015 family, and these ones come with a bounty of new features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/30/2015
Microsoft aims to give developers the means to code one app that's capable of running on Windows, Windows Phone, Microsoft Azure and the new Windows Holographic Platform.
- By Michael Desmond
- 04/29/2015
The company packed quite a bit into a three-hour keynote that spanned the spectrum of Microsoft technologies and hardware. For developers, the emphasis was on cross-platform app building, with new tools built right into the next Visual Studio 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/29/2015
Project renaming, a top user feature, now available, as is account restoration and several incremental configuration updates to Kanban boards and Taskboards.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2015
Building line-of-business mobile apps for Windows Phone that connect to Microsoft Azure for authentication, data storage and notifications isn't much different from on-premises apps. Here's what it takes.
- By Nick Randolph
- 04/28/2015
Cloud service for orchestrating microservices from within Visual Studio will have a preview at next week's Microsoft Build conference.
Z-Ray to provide productivity enhancements for PHP developers working within Microsoft's managed cloud service.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2015
User experience expert Billy Hollis points to great deal of uncertainty, and describes the best response for success in such a world.
Microsoft announced general availability of its NoSQL service for developers and IT pros.
Microsoft's Visual Studio team live-demo recent enhancements to the platforms that facilitate mobile device and cloud development.
Still in pre-release, updates are coming out fast for Application Insights SDK for Web Apps, including new ways to share customized charts.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/02/2015
Developers can start using the Azure-based App Service apps, with other cross-platform/cross-device services available in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/25/2015
The collection of templates and functions for building Eclipse apps running on Azure now has support for building apps from Mac and Ubuntu.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/20/2015