New 2017 version builds on the popular 2012 tool, which was installed more than 640,000 times.
Posted more than six years ago and seconded by more than 8,800 developers, that request received an update response from Microsoft just this week.
API integration specialist CloudRail released SDKs for Xamarin developers coding Android and iOS apps in Visual Studio, promising easier connections to various third-party services.
From performance improvements to new platforms, here’s a look at what’s coming down the road for Xamarin.Forms developers.
- By Greg Shackles
- 08/10/2017
The open source .NET Standard 2.0 project was finalized today, providing a formal spec for .NET APIs that should be available to developers working with all .NET implementations.
Question: Is Microsoft working on .NET targeting WebAssembly so that we can get delivered from the insanity of JavaScript? Answer: Yes.
Learn how providing information in available HTTP header elements can help make interactions between unrelated systems straightforward and meaningful.
Developers wanting in on the latest and greatest from the Microsoft dev world now have access to new previews for the next iterations of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE and the flagship .NET Framework.
The 26-year-old Visual Basic programming language just won't go away, as Microsoft just announced plans to bring its IDE back to the Office for Mac environment.
Rider, a new alternative to Visual Studio for developing .NET applications that's based on IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper, was released to manufacturing by JetBrains.
Microsoft's Scott Hanselman is trying to drum up interest in a community project created to provide an integrated terminal for command-line operations from within the Visual Studio IDE.
With the fall release of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, developers will be able to get full support for WSL, now that it's no longer labeled a beta service.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2017
Those days are long gone, but Microsoft was at one time a notorious anti-open source company. It's turned that notion upside down within a decade, and is now a member of several foundations whose purposes are to steer open source development deep into the cloud.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2017
It's a sweet win for X.Glu, this year's top team of student developers from the Czech Republic with a glucose meter that extends to the Azure cloud via an app built with Visual Studio and Xamarin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/27/2017
Squash the dangers lurking in your SQL queries by setting parameters by way of parameterized queries.
Test, test and test again. You can automate those tests with a TestServer-based Web app that doesn't even touch the Web server.
- By Jason Roberts
- 07/27/2017
An update to this VS Code extension allows for locally running and debugging code prior to pushing code to production Azure services.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/26/2017
Playing around with Apple's Core Image imaging technology, using some simple C# code to perform facial recognition and apply filters to photos.
- By Wallace McClure
- 07/26/2017
Here’s a roundup of the newest tools and extensions available for the new Visual Studio 2017 release.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/25/2017
Update 2 is now out, and with enhancements to Delivery Plans and a more simplified Work Item search capability comes more pull request and git improvements, and a new build definition editor.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/25/2017