Microsoft knows that, out there in the real world, developers come at DevOps using a wide range of languages and platforms, some of which are not of the developer's choosing. That was the core message of Microsoft DevOps expert Donovan Brown's demo at VSLive! in Las Vegas this week.
A release candidate that allows developers to use Visual Studio to develop R apps is the last step prior to its general availability. Plus: An update on Python Tools for VS.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2017
Document databases are a form of NoSQL database that may store all of the information for a given object in a single instance in the database.
- By Jason Roberts
- 12/12/2016
Microsoft has been on the Linux bandwagon for a while, and many of the development tool offerings announced at this week's Connect(); event prove that the company is in it for the long haul.
You might be surprised how easy it was to port this NoSQL database for .NET to the Python language.
- By Idan Haim Shalom
- 09/23/2016
Microsoft is open sourcing its popular scripting language and porting it to the Linux and Mac OSX platforms. PowerShell capabilities will also reach into the cloud via extensions for Microsoft Operations Management Suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2016
At Visual Studio Live! on Tuesday, Microsoft's Amanda Silver offered up a state of the Microsoft development stack, noting the gains made by open sourcing its tools.
Amanda Silver's opening keynote on the Open Microsoft Developer Platform, along with a slew of other selected developer sessions, will be live-streamed during next week's conference at the Microsoft campus.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/04/2016
Latest update includes support for more recent Node.js release, as well as quite a few productivity enhancements and bug fixes.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/28/2016
A preview of the forthcoming Visual F# Tools for F# 4.1 to be released later this year includes support for F# 4.1, editing and compiling .NET Core and .NET Framework projects, as well as support for tuples, struct records, and a number of other F# language enhancements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/26/2016
First previewed at Build 2016, this GA version comes with a number of samples for getting started with building Node.js apps that can take full advantage of Azure Blob, File, Table and Queue storage.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/21/2016
Bash on Windows: It's new, it's exciting, but what can you do with it? We'll show you how the magic works (including some extensions for Visual Studio developers)
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 07/21/2016
A Windows 10 preview build now has some basic Bash shell capabilities that only Windows Insider members can check out in a test environment.
Write code destined for Linux servers, desktops and devices right from the Visual C++ as if it were native code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/06/2016
Microsoft adds native support for the Linux-based Bash command-line shell in Windows update coming this summer.
- By Michael Desmond
- 03/30/2016