Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC now Available
Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC is now available to download. This release has lots of small features and fixes for ASP.NET and web platform, Team Foundation Server, Visual C++, JavaScript Editor,...
View ArticleSave the date! Connect(“November 12 & 13”); is almost here
Don’t miss the cloud-first, mobile-first, code-first virtual event for developers, streaming live starting November 12th!Join us on Day 1, November 12th and watch keynotes from Scott Guthrie, S....
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013...
[UPDATE: 11/13] We have updated this post with links to detail blog posts on updated tooling for Apache Cordova and Blend for Visual Studio 2015. Look for the [UPDATE] tag to find these links.Original...
View ArticleThe C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused IDE Experience
The new C# and Visual Basic code-focused IDE experience in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview is significantly improved over the experience in Visual Studio 2013 and I’m excited to share some highlights...
View ArticleTools for Apache Cordova Update: iOS Debugging & Windows 8.1 Support
At Visual Studio Connect(); we released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. These tools allow you to use Visual Studio to build Apache Cordova-based apps written in HTML, CSS, and...
View ArticleBlend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview
Yesterday we released a preview of Visual Studio 2015, and as part of that we are introducing a new Blend experience.We redesigned Blend for Visual Studio 2015 to provide you with a great user...
View ArticleImproving the Visual Studio Account Management Experience
Anyone who has built an application in Visual Studio that uses several services (e.g. roaming Visual Studio settings, accessing Azure services in Server Explorer, or using Windows Store) has probably...
View ArticleConnecting to Cloud Services
Modern applications often rely on services for analytics, data storage and retrieval, and customer information. It’s increasingly common to see applications that blend together services such as...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview
Two weeks ago during the Connect() event we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and...
View ArticleiOS Build & Debugging with the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enables developers to easily build a mobile app that targets iOS, Android, and Windows with web standards technologies. At the Connect() event in...
View ArticleOffice 365 Client APIs for Hybrid Mobile Apps
The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enable developers to build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using web standards technologies. When used with the Office 365 API Tools for Visual...
View ArticleIncorporate “Big Data” Within Your Visual Studio App Using Azure HDInsight
To help make it easier to work with “big data” in your apps, we added support for Hive queries and management of data clusters with Azure HDInsight, the Microsoft Azure Hadoop cluster solution for...
View ArticleBing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio
Today we are releasing the RTM version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio! To get started, download Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2013 or Bing Developer Assistant for Visual...
View ArticleBuild and Run using Cordova CLI
With Apache Cordova, web developers can achieve maximal code re-use by building cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For details on how Apache Cordova works, read this...
View ArticleAzure Virtual Machine Images for Visual Studio
Over the last year we have been constantly expanding our Visual Studio image offerings for the Microsoft Azure virtual machine gallery. The images have proven to be very popular not only for evaluating...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova and the remote mac agent
At the Connect(); event, we showed yet more of what we’re doing to enable developers to use Apache Cordova. Cordova is a framework you can use to build hybrid mobile apps that work across modern mobile...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available
Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released
Today we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2, adding support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and making fixes in the IDE, Team Foundation Server, and Git...
View ArticleSurvey: Tell us about your first experience with the Tools for Apache Cordova
Even though we recently released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, we are already busy working on the next series of improvements to help you more easily build Android, iOS, and...
View ArticleUsing AngularJS in Visual Studio 2013
We continually strive to make the JavaScript editing experience better, part of this is providing support for popular libraries and patterns used by developers. AngularJS is one of the most popular...
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