Amazon opening up its Android-based tablet app platform means developers can target their apps for yet another revenue opportunity.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/25/2015
At DockerCon, a demo during a keynote shows Visual Studio Code capable of editing of Docker Compose files via an extension that will be available at the next update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/24/2015
At Visual Studio Live! in San Francisco, keynote speaker Kris Lankford urges developers working with C#, ASP.NET, and a number of Microsoft dev tools to embrace the cloud or get left behind.
Redmond's release of several tools for developing apps on Apple platforms during the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference couldn't have been timed any better.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/16/2015
Natural UI expert Tim Huckaby live-demonstrated at Visual Studio Live! in Austin this week some well-developed but primitive NUI capabilities with his phone that show what is capable in the very near future as the technology matures.
Microsoft announced pricing cuts for volume users starting June 1 while Application Insights is in public preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/04/2015
Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer kicks off Visual Studio Live! in Austin, Texas highlighting the company's latest open source efforts within Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Framework.
Xamarin Inc. is teaming up to integrate its cross-platform mobile development tools with IBM MobileFirst Protect security software.
Project System Extensibility SDK improves upon Visual Studio Managed Package Framework for Projects' process for project system plug-in development.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/02/2015
The newest work-in-progress WCF that's targeting .NET Core is now being open sourced on GitHub.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/28/2015
Buried in Microsoft's May bulletins are two .NET Framework fixes that are rated critical and important.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/26/2015
New features in this version include the automation of screen caps of Web pages being tested and customizable test result reports.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/21/2015
The Visual Studio Code Team improves a few features of the portable code editor -- in particular, public issue tracking and centralized feedback channnel -- while still in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/19/2015
Next generation of the Microsoft Build automation system is now in public preview as part of Visual Studio Online Sprint 82.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/15/2015
A peek at a diagnostics tool that gives developers some insight into networking issues that might be mucking up how apps interact among the Windows device spectrum.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/14/2015
The JavaScript-based cross-platform development platform sees light of day, as well as a number of new and upgraded tools, including some aimed at .NET developers.
TypeScript 1.5, which has been in the hands of beta testers since the end of April, packs bug fixes and a few more features to get it ready to align with the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/07/2015
The extension simplifies the back-and-forth connections from Visual Studio 2015 RC to GitHub. But there's an interesting aside to how the extension was developed that reveals something about "the New Microsoft."
- By Michael Domingo
- 05/05/2015
Microsoft said a new Always Encrypted security feature highlights its upcoming SQL Server 2016 -- "the biggest leap forward in Microsoft's data platform history" -- shipping this summer in a public preview.
Microsoft believes Windows 10 will be big for consumers, and an even bigger opportunity for developers. The company trotted out nine more solutions that should keep developers busy.
- By Tony Champion
- 05/01/2015