A more recent version of the tools will be included in the VS 2013 RTM.
Currently, there is no plan to support WinRT development, although the company says it will consider it if demand is there.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/30/2013
Test-driven development has been enhanced with Visual Studio 2012; learn how to use this powerful tool by building a class library for math functions.
- By Mickey Gousset
- 07/29/2013
Building your applications so that each part does just one job well makes everything easier. Peter Vogel applies that approach to a Windows Forms app and, in addition to getting it to work, creates a more responsive application.
Updates to the Amazon .NET SDK target Windows workloads.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 07/26/2013
Learn how to use asynchronous controller actions in ASP.NET MVC 4 by building a simple Contacts Manager app.
It's also being packaged as part of a separate product.
James McCaffrey explains how to normalize and encode neural network data from a developer's point of view.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/22/2013
The new schedule parallels what Redmond had started with Visual Studio 2012 updates.
Company takes $900 million hit on "Surface RT inventory adjustments."
Google has replaced MapView with MapFragment for adding mapping and location in Android. Learn what the new API can do, and how to use it.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/18/2013
James McCaffrey demonstrates the brute-force, Fisher-shuffle and reservoir-sampling techniques.
- By James McCaffrey
- 07/17/2013
Microsoft drops the price under the entry-level iPad to get traction in the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/16/2013
Chain of Responsibility decouples the sender of a request from the receiver by allowing one or many handler objects to handle the request.
The Visual Studio 2013 Preview introduces a synchronized settings feature.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 07/11/2013
InRelease automates TFS deployment across multiple environments.
NuGet extends Visual Studio by simplifying the process of installing and updating third-party libraries and tools. It has limitations in a local private network, however. Here's what you need to know, along with a possible solution.
- By Joe Kuemerle
- 07/09/2013
Microsoft's real value proposition is that it has a super-franchise made up of smaller constituent franchises.
- By Andrew J. Brust
- 07/07/2013
Visual Studio 2013 and .NET Framework 4.5.1 are hits, as is the Bing development platform.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013
The company says more than half of the Fortune 500 is on Azure.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/28/2013