Microsoft's venerable RDBMS gets a major update, with a developer-enabled version that unclutters the enterprise database solution development process.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/03/2016
SharePoint 2016 and add-in development support are highlights of this release that allows Visual Studio developers to customize Microsoft Office.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2016
Providers for Oracle, MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite 5.5, and DB 2.0 can now work with Entity Framework Core 1.0 RC1.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/28/2016
Slew of announcements from the company at its Evolve 16 event in Florida include a bevy of solutions to help developers connect to Macs to create native iOS apps.
Microsoft Learning is providing early warning to exam takers that the cost of taking MCP exams, including exams for obtaining the developer-based titles, will go up worldwide at mid-year.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/26/2016
Latest updates allows more incremental improvements to work items, such as alerts for keeping up with them and ability to move between projects, as well as the simple act of changing their types.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/19/2016
The online cross-platform editor is now a finished product, now that the company has appended its name with a version 1.0.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2016
An updated .NET Native toolchain, Universal Windows SDK Picker, and improved Store Package Wizard are a handful of new features in a recent rollup of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/13/2016
Newer version of the coding extension for Visual Studio makes incremental improvements in VB.NET 14 support, and will come with Intermediate Language viewer.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/13/2016
Cross-platform development tool is now integrated with Visual Studio Code via an extension. The company is also workin on support for UWP and Windows Mobile 10.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/12/2016
Why does Visual Studio need a JavaScript language service? The Visual Studio team explains in a blog post that it comes down to better JavaScript coding efficiency.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/11/2016
Microsoft said it will add tooling to Hyper-V containers in Windows 10 that will allow developers to bypass complex VM machinations to support development activities. Coming PowerShell module for Docker is also aimed at devs.
A Windows 10 preview build now has some basic Bash shell capabilities that only Windows Insider members can check out in a test environment.
Write code destined for Linux servers, desktops and devices right from the Visual C++ as if it were native code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/06/2016
A new tool that ingests every piece of Application Insights and turns it into reportable information is now getting its public preview. It's also got a name.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
Microsoft offered a preview of Visual Studio '15' at Build last week. And whileit's just not quite ready for prime time, it's got an impressive number of changes with practically every tool in it that demand developer attention.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/05/2016
Microsoft's Qi Lu and his team showed off a few new developer features that will make Office 365 integration a much easier prospect, including Skype SDKs that open up communication capabilities.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2016
It's limited what VSDE member can do with it. Also: SQL Server 2016, when released later this year, will also be free.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2016
The second day of Build highlighted the "cloud-first" part of Microsoft's mission. Plus: Xamarin is set free and is open sourced.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/31/2016
Microsoft adds native support for the Linux-based Bash command-line shell in Windows update coming this summer.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/30/2016