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
Improvements to Kanban boards and bug fixes in this sprint means the march to final gets nearer and nearer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/18/2015
Upcoming release will include some developer-requested features integrated into ADAL .NET and .NET Core to streamline use of OpenID and OAuth app protocols.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/16/2015
You don't need to worry about keeping your current job -- it will be gone, eventually. What you want to worry about is keeping your next job. That means developing the right skills to the right level for the package you intend to provide to employers.
Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 comes with more efficient cloud services single sign-on, improvements in ASP.NET and Xamarin integration, and an update to Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2015
In this sprint, Kanban boards get a spartan look to allow for customizing them in the future. Also, more testers can be added to Visual Studio Online test suites.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/19/2015
Writing automated UI tests for your iOS and Android apps might not be as difficult as you think. Learn how to set up tests for your apps with Xamarin.UITest.
- By Greg Shackles
- 02/17/2015
It's a little more than one month into the new year, and there's a wave of new Visual Studio extensions available specifically for Visual Studio 2013.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 02/10/2015
Microsoft Research-developed "high-performance in-memory incremental analytics engine" plugs into .NET natively to give apps ability to churn through gobs of data in nothing flat.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/05/2015
Licensing changes affects user acceptance testing and Agile Planning. Also: Work for the Visual Studio Online, Team Foundation Server teams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2015
Developers looking to check out the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Visual Studio 2015 can do so without using up precious resources, now that a preview is available via an Azure VM. Also released: Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 1.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/27/2015
More quick-start templates, enhanced push notifications, and new Telerik Device Cloud service, currently in beta, will allow testing on hundreds of physical devices.
Microsoft's new build/test pricing and licensing reductions that were proposed last month are now in effect.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/06/2015
See how the .NET SDK uses consistent naming and patterns, making it easy to work with the myriad of Web services that AWS provides.
- By Ondrej Balas
- 12/30/2014
Bing Developer Assistant takes code searching to another level, searching well over 19M code samples, and adds contextual help and better error resolution from within Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/18/2014
It's been a great year for new development tools and technologies. We look back at seven releases that didn't get all the attention they deserve.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 12/17/2014
Recent acquisition to bolster performance and monitoring of applications through Application Insights service that will be included in forthcoming Visual Studio releases.