Here's a roundup of simple yet incredibly useful free extensions for Visual Studio 2015 that will keep you coding instead of fussing, and five of them are from Mads Kristensen!
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/24/2016
Newest version of Typemock's unit testing framework uses a patented isolation technology to simplify unit testing of C/C++ code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2016
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
Kingstar's RTX64 2014 software extensions now support development via Visual Studio 2015 through a recent update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2016
An MVP is not some Microsoft award, but the acronym for a term, "minimum viable product," that loosely defines what you're trying to provide as far as features -- at a bare minimum -- to get your app to market. Let's look at the considerations for making sure your app achieves MVP status.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/22/2016
A newer version of the R programming language extension is available, with a few more new features as well as updated documentation and help.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/22/2016
A number of tools are slowly being open sourced onto the Github repository, with all of them being available over time.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2016
Microsoft's mega-event for developers at the end of March won't have the splash of a Visual Studio release, but there are other important technologies that should win your attention. So, how do you know what to focus on? These videos.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2016
When you need to share a list of specific information between asynchronous processes, you probably need the ConcurrentDictionary. Except, of course, when you don't.
Save 35 percent on developer titles when purchasing books or downloading e-books directly from the Microsoft Press Store. Sale ends March 31.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft calls the recent release of this VS Code debugging capability an "experimental preview," which means it's truly a work in progress.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft and DevExpress have released a new version that delivers some improvements as well as a few user-requested updates to a number of the controls in the suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
SONiC is the company's open source framework that will allow application developers to extend network switches to work across disparate hardware platforms.
Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/16/2016
A few new features -- error reporting, new project default, and a number of ionic project starter templates, to name a few -- as well as bug fixes, round out this update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/15/2016
When it's important to know what path your application took when processing data, a log of that path can be helpful. And, when you need to make a decision in your code based on an earlier decision, that internal path can make your code both simpler and easier to understand.
Official Microsoft support for the decade-old development platform ends mid-April. So, who is still using it to develop enterprise-grade apps?
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/14/2016
Remember Microsoft's MCP Exam Retake Offer? This is a bit different. Instead of a second shot, take several shots at a certification exam. And many developer exams are part of the offer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
Microsoft R and R Server features are accessible almost directly through the Visual Studio IDE, with the new R Tools for Visual Studio plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/10/2016
Microsoft Build doesn't have the build up of, say, a major release of Visual Studio, to attract attendees, so why does it sell out? It's all about networking.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016