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
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
The latest Web preview of the VSTS rounds up a number of new features -- Agile planning, testing, Git, release management, Office 365 integration, more -- that the Visual Studio Team will be refining over the next few months.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/09/2016
Announced at EclipseCon: More tools and support for open source Eclipse platform coming in Microsoft's Azure and Visual Studio tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/08/2016
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie said that the company's RDBMS could be running on the Linux platform some time in 2017. He plans to preview a new SQL Server Stretch Database service at a New York event this week.
Reliability and performance improvements rule on this release candidate, and there are a bevy of new features being tested out with Team Foundation Server 2015 U2 RC as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/04/2016
Just in time for Build in San Francisco, Microsoft will make available a kit for developing for yet another extension of the Windows platform that will have you going all Johnny Mnemonic on your Visual Studio apps. You'll need to be a Windows Insider, though, before you can get your hand -- and face -- on one.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/03/2016
Predictably, Microsoft has pulled the plug on the Windows Bridge for Android, now that the company is absorbing Xamarin. Xamarin's cross-platform development capabilities can already be used to port Windows apps to the Android marketplace.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/29/2016
Pending regulatory approval, Redmond announced its plans to acquire the mobile cross-platform tools developer. Terms were undisclosed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/24/2016
The retirement of the Insider Program means -- voila! -- the Insiders Build for Visual Studio Code developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2016
Microsoft's Visual Studio Team is trying out a new process for delivering preview code via NuGet that will make the process of testing then unloading software in development a bit easier.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/16/2016
The company has been putting a year's worth of work porting its open source Web database management system to the Windows platform.
These are the fixes you were looking for: more than 300 bugs squashed in C++, as well as a number of editing fixes for those working with C# and Visual Basic projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/11/2016
Version 2.2 fixes a few integration issues that have been bewitching Unity game developers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
When your goal is 99.999-percent uptime, there's a small crack in the window for downtime. That happened with Visual Studio Team Services last week. And it happened within a span of two days.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/09/2016
Visual Studio developers who are part of the Essentials Program now have access to more than $300-worth of Azure credits over a year, as well as the addition of mobile development courses from Xamarin University.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/04/2016
The Windows-based Big Data tools and frameworks suite adds support for Apache Spark, Apache HBase and Scientific Python.
TypeScript 1.7 has been out a month, but there's already a TypeScript 1.8 in beta and it features compilation improvements, expanded JSX support, plus ChakraCore support.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/29/2016