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
Some incremental changes, such as environment switching and improved iOS support, come to TACO, and the group adds a TACO blog for regular tips and tricks. Update now allows for using TACO with Visual Studio Code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2016
Lots of user feedback-related improvements will make this incremental release easier for developers who want to make the cloud connection.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/28/2016
The goal is to eventually get developers to start working more diligently on apps aimed at the Windows 10 IoT Core platform by way of Node.js. That's where Node.js Tools for Windows IoT 1.5 comes in.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/26/2016
Use Node.js or .NET to write data-accessible apps that target Azure Mobile App on the back end with this new plugin.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/25/2016
ASP.NET 5.0 is no more, at least by name -- it's now ASP.NET Core 1.0. Newer versions of .NET Core 5 and Entity Framework 7 will also follow suit.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/20/2016
Now that the JavaScript engine is open to the development community at large, it paves the way to making it available on Linux and other non-Windows platforms.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/19/2016
JetBrains announced that it's developing a C# integrated development environment that works independently of the Visual Studio environment.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/14/2016
Also noteworthy: weird keyboard layout problem encountered by developers on OSX -- fixed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/12/2016
Incremental update version 14.0.2 of the Eclipse plugin supports Mars, mixed repository use in projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/07/2016
It's a small step, but a duet of sender-side features are enabled in this preview that allow a more nuanced way of pushing out event-driven WebHooks to users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 01/04/2016
Security risks will be a major concern for companies using some versions of .NET Framework and SQL Server after extended support ends some time this year.
It's no small feat to be able to customize work items, right from the Web. The functionality is due to process inheritance, which is a function of Team Process Templates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/22/2015