Since March, Microsoft has had designs on taking the Microsoft Build Engine open source and cross-platform as it ports it to .NET Core in the coming months. Progress is in full swing now.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/07/2015
Point release now allows Visual Studio 2013 developers to gain access to Azure management tools, such as Cloud Explorer, HDInsight, and others.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/02/2015
Along with Sprint 87 release, a user name anomaly in Visual Studio Code that affects developers on Windows machine is also fixed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/31/2015
Team Project Rename, a new feature introduced in VS 2015, now a capability for VS 2012 projects.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/26/2015
New 'Proxy By Name' feature allows Visual Studio developers to view metadata of the underlying binaries.
- By John K. Waters
- 08/25/2015
Visual Studio Code adds language improvements when working with JavaScript, JSON, PHP, Dockerfile, as well as C#.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2015
According to Anywhere Software, B4J aims to be the modern alternative to Visual Basic 6.
Microsoft's Thomas Fennel demonstrated several "bridge" innovations in the Universal App platform that should appeal to traditional developers.
A quartet of Visual Studio team members demonstrated a number of the "mobile first, cloud first" innovations in the newly released development platform at Visual Studio Live! in Redmond.
Project Islandwood is currently available in preview form to the open source development community under the MIT license.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/06/2015
Nestled inside the Universal Windows Application Development Tools for Visual Studio 2015 that was released last week are a few improvements that will make network and cloud connectivity much smoother.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/06/2015
Some of the hidden gems in the just-released VS 2015 include improved account management as developers go from one environment to another, and the addition of some nifty features in the Productivity Power Tools for VS 2015.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/03/2015
Simple licensing change that allows single user to use VSO and TFS will go into effect September 1. And VSO Basic pricing is simplified as well.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/02/2015
Microsoft's developer division has been gearing up for this day, as it now officially opens up the Windows 10 Store and announces a handful of Windows 10 resources that developers can deploy in live production environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/29/2015
EF7 Beta 6 adds data annotations, customization of reverse engineer via templates, and support for raw SQL commands.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2015
Along with VS 2015 and .NET 4.6, VS 2012 Update 5 RC is now available, and with it come a few fixes and the capability to allow projects to be renamed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2015
Changes in licensing allows anyone with the basic CAL to get access to features that were available only to premium subscribers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/23/2015
Also released is Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, which rolls up a number of bug fixes but also adds features for developers to perform load testing of apps via an Azure site globally from within Team Foundation Server.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/20/2015
An update to Microsoft's cross-platform code editor adds support for the popular scripting language.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/16/2015
Developers can tap into Azure AD reporting data and create custom dashboards with the availability of a number of reporting APIs that Microsoft has released as previews last week.