The latest update includes mostly bug fixes.
MongoDB is a popular choice for apps that use a Windows Azure back end.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2013
The upcoming Build conference spurred the action.
It's a centralized hub for partners (including Microsoft) that extend apps.
The big update in the latest version is the introduction of generics.
Microsoft reportedly thought the purchase price was too high.
Microsoft provides a solution for compatibility issues with the NuGet package restore feature.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/18/2013
Microsoft also announces that every Azure customer gets a free 20MB database to use for a year with Web Sites and Mobile Services.
Updated dev tools bundle focuses on touch, enterprise and enabling "occasionally connected" devices.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/13/2013
The JavaScript-based platform allows developers to do remote testing and debugging on a Windows Phone through Internet Explorer 10.
The company calls this ability "round-tripping," and says that Visual Studio 2013 will be able to load projects as far back as Visual Studio 2010.
At Computex, Microsoft also showed off a growing number of devices for its newest OS.
At TechEd, Microsoft reveals the next release of Visual Studio will be available later this year.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/05/2013
The new version of the .NET-focused unit-testing product aims to quickly find and fix bugs.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 06/04/2013
MSDN subscribers get a host of new benefits as well, including credit toward Azure time, making cloud-based development free in some cases.
Other changes in the forthcoming Windows 8.1 include a boot-to-desktop option and improved search.
The latest version is Release Candidate (RC) 2, and Microsoft says it's safe for production use.
New release brings simplified cloud back-end capabilities.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/28/2013
The Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows works with Microsoft's Windows Azure HDInsight Service.
Rackspace Cloud SDK for Microsoft .NET is a tool suite for .NET developers working with the OpenStack cloud OS.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 05/16/2013