Microsoft and Red Hat join forces to provide more Red Hat solution capabilities in the Azure public cloud, as well as .NET Framework integration with Red Hat platform offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/04/2015
Latest sprint comes with new dashboard capabilities that are meant to replace the Team Overview page, as well as improved pull request and testing features.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/03/2015
The Visual Studio coding extension suite from JetBrains has a whole host of improvements, and includes a new build tool.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/02/2015
Microsoft reveals a community technology preview of the venerable RDBMS that sports Always Encrypted technology and built-in R language services, among other features. Also in preview: Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics Services and Azure SQL Database In-Memory OLTP and Operational Analytics.
Microsoft has offered a few of the machine learning APIs to developers to incorporate into apps. Out in public beta now is LUIS, the Language Understanding Intelligent Service that now has Chinese language support and adds dozens of prebuilt models.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/28/2015
The acquisition adds Java development capabilities to the company's cross-platform development arsenal.
Microsoft's ASP.NET team is willing to pay $15,000 to developers who discover specific security gaps in .NET Core and ASP.NET.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/21/2015
Sprint 89 now has support for Azure Active Directory Groups, and previews a new work item form that will be the basis for work item forms moving forward.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/19/2015
Three months from their original releases, both tool suites have a handful of fit-and-finish improvements meant to smoothe over the development process.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/14/2015
The newest release also sports new spreadsheet widget that allows Excel-style data management and organization, as well as a handful of new project templates.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2015
Along with a handful of features, including an ADAL plug-in, VS Tools for Cordova Update 3 aims for stability with a number of fixes that includes one for an error developers were getting after installing ASP.NET 5 Beta 7.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/12/2015
At Microsoft, the search is on for someone to fill the shoes of S. Somasegar, who will be leaving the company after 27 years.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/08/2015
The toolset that allows Visual Studio developers to work natively with the popular Cordova mobile app framework finally makes it out of development, and becomes an open source project on Github.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/06/2015
A number of new tools whose capabilities will be deployable in Office client apps in the coming months include add-in command extensibility, and theming and Office.js APIs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/01/2015
Renowned journalist and Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley says the "new" Microsoft has become much more unpredictable, and highlights the current state of the app bridges of Microsoft's Universal App Platform.
Microsoft fills in the gaps on its Big Data offering with previews of its Azure Data Lake and Language Services, which includes the brand-new U-SQL language for crunching the incoming explosion of data.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/28/2015
A September update to the .NET Server SDK include automated OWIN setup and improved middleware authentication processes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/24/2015
A number of developer tools have been in the works and released in recent weeks leading up to the release of Office 2016 today.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2015
Preview version 0.8.0 adds TypeScript 1.6 support, improved debugging features, themes, and takes care of Windows setup bugaboos that have plagued some VSC users.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/18/2015
The game development platform has native integration with Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition, which allows option to install it as the default IDE.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/17/2015