Microsoft's Satya Nadella expands the company's vision with the concept of "conversations as a platform." That's where Skype, HoloLens, and Cortana now need developers to usher those tools deeper into the conversation,, which means tools aplenty now and to come.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2016
Docker last week announced a beta release of Mac and Windows developer tools for working with its Docker container technology.
Visual Studio Team Foundation Services Exension for VSC allows management of pull requests, work items directly from Git repos.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/28/2016
There are lots of enhancements waiting for you in TypeScript 1.8, including features that make it easier to move your project to TypeScript, that protect you from errors and that give you even better control over data types.
Here's a roundup of simple yet incredibly useful free extensions for Visual Studio 2015 that will keep you coding instead of fussing, and five of them are from Mads Kristensen!
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/24/2016
Newest version of Typemock's unit testing framework uses a patented isolation technology to simplify unit testing of C/C++ code.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/24/2016
HoloLens, anyone? How about developing for Xbox apps? Not sure if those will be featured, but Microsoft developers are expecting an expanded device universe for which to develop new apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2016
Kingstar's RTX64 2014 software extensions now support development via Visual Studio 2015 through a recent update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2016
A newer version of the R programming language extension is available, with a few more new features as well as updated documentation and help.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/22/2016
When you need to share a list of specific information between asynchronous processes, you probably need the ConcurrentDictionary. Except, of course, when you don't.
Microsoft calls the recent release of this VS Code debugging capability an "experimental preview," which means it's truly a work in progress.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Microsoft and DevExpress have released a new version that delivers some improvements as well as a few user-requested updates to a number of the controls in the suite.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/17/2016
Here's a nifty tool that can help you get to the heart of issues in your mobile apps that aren't easy to track down.
- By Wallace McClure
- 03/16/2016
A few new features -- error reporting, new project default, and a number of ionic project starter templates, to name a few -- as well as bug fixes, round out this update.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/15/2016
When it's important to know what path your application took when processing data, a log of that path can be helpful. And, when you need to make a decision in your code based on an earlier decision, that internal path can make your code both simpler and easier to understand.