Microsoft's "team sport"-style integrated development suite makes it among leaders on Gartner's 2014 Magic Quadrant report.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/15/2014
The data analytics company adds new tools for .NET developers who want to tap the vast information stores to customized apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/11/2014
Two issues related to the .NET Framework and ASP.NET are included in Microsoft's monthly security bulletin release.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/10/2014
Gartner, IDC chime in on why agile and more more strategic development needed to make mobile app development practices more successful.
Visual Studio team offers a slew of new, untested features into an update to Visual Studio Online, mainly consisting of Work Item query improvements and incremental changes to displayed information.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/09/2014
An upgraded version of company's cross-platform development suite comes with increased connectivity and mobile options.
First preview of VS 2013.4 introduces a web-based pull request option for Git and enhancements mainly to TFS and Visual C++.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/04/2014
Version 3.1.2 of the Microsoft F# derivation has expanded portable library support and enables the Publish option in Web and Azure projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/03/2014
Microsoft's Amanda Silver addressed the challenges of developing for a widening spectrum of devices infiltrating the enterprise, and demonstrated a few tools that have been added to the Visual Studio suite for tackling those challenges head on.
Microsoft's Azure team releases NoSQL document database-as-a-service accessible for devs looking to toward the cloud for app development/deployment, as well as a few other developer-friendly Azure tools.
Third round of funding to go toward expanding Visual C#-based mobile app tool offerings, and to growing the company's sales and marketing teams.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/21/2014
Unified API at root of changes that will allow developers using Xamarin tools to simplify developing for 32- and 64-bit frameworks, as well as share code between Android and Apple apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/20/2014
VS "14" CTP 3 includes early build of next-generation Microsoft .NET Framework and ASP.NET, plus a slew of enhancements that include C++ productivity improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/19/2014
This time, it's an issue with new Git projects.
The repair team says it's rolling back recent updates to mitigate the problem.
The latest version includes both fixes and upgrades.
Microsoft indicated it will postpone a planned fix for Internet Explorer to block out-of-date ActiveX controls because of customer feedback, apparently to give users more time for testing.
.NET vNext isn't here just yet, but Microsoft wants developers to move on to .NET Framework 4.5.2 as soon as possible, with support for versions 4 up to 4.5.1 ending mid-January 2016.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/11/2014
"Summer update" comes with improved URL support, message logging, and authentication.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/07/2014
In related news, also released is another CTP for an extension for developing apps with the Apache Cordova platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/06/2014