Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio
As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools. Today we are pleased to confirm...
View ArticleUnit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 1
See Part 2 of this series. Great apps—like great artists, actors, and athletes—are great performers. Human beings validate and continually improve their performances through extensive training,...
View ArticleUnit Testing Apache Cordova Apps with Visual Studio, Part 2
Part 1 of this post provided some background on unit testing with a basic example in Visual Studio for an app written with Apache Cordova. In this post we’ll make many improvements to that example...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5
Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new...
View ArticleTop News from October-December 2015, Part 1
It’s been a few months since our last roll-up of top developer stories, so I’ll be catching up with the news from last fall in two posts. We’ll start here in Part 1 with Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET,...
View ArticleTop News from October-December 2015, Part 2
In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual...
View ArticleApache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code
Thousands of developers already use Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova—affectionately abbreviated as “TACO”—to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using a shared JavaScript codebase....
View ArticleFree Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program now includes $300 in Azure credits...
In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free. Over the past 75 days...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Unity 2.2
A few months back we released Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 (VSTU), the first release to be natively supported by Unity on Windows, making it much easier for game developers to use the rich...
View ArticleWrite once and deploy to Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Azure Stack from Visual...
The Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview gives enterprises the ability to deliver Azure applications and services from their own datacenters. Today, we’re happy to share that we’ve built Azure Stack...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP
Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP. Our focus for this release has been stability and performance, along with responding to feedback you’ve given us on Visual Studio 2015 RTM and Update...
View ArticleFind Your Favorite Visual Studio Extension
One of the greatest strengths of Visual Studio is the vibrancy of the partner ecosystem that surrounds it. There are thousands of extensions available for Visual Studio that enhance the editor...
View ArticleAnalyze CPU and Memory while Debugging
Would you like to learn how to make your code run faster, use less memory, or just find out whether your code has a CPU or memory issue? Of course you would—you’re a developer! But then, memory and...
View ArticleNode.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code
Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. It’s making its way just about everywhere – from servers, to Internet of Things devices, to desktop applications, to who...
View Article10 things you should try on the leap day
It’s February 2016 and so those of us on the Gregorian calendar get to enjoy an extra day in the month! What will you do in those 24 bonus hours? How about learning some new tools and technologies?...
View ArticleDevelop ReactNative apps in Visual Studio Code
ReactNative is a great way to build native, cross platform app for iOS and Android using JavaScript. We recently announced the launch of a Visual Studio Code Extension that enables you to build, debug...
View ArticleTop news from January 2016
The year has gotten off to a great start and it seems that .NET, the web, and TypeScript get the prize for the most popular topics! ASP.NET 5 is dead: Did we get your attention with that heading? Well,...
View ArticleNew and Noteworthy Visual Studio Extensions – Feburary 2016
Last month I showed you a few of my favorite Visual Studio extensions that give great examples of how developers add new features to Visual Studio. With such a vibrant ecosystem around Visual Studio,...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC
Today we released the next set of reliability and performance improvements in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 RC, which also addresses issues that we hear from your continued feedback. Building on what we...
View ArticleMicrosoft joins the Eclipse Foundation and brings more tools to the community
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires us to be open, flexible, and interoperable: to...
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