PyCon 2015: April 8-16
Many Visual Studio blog readers probably don’t know that Visual Studio has great support for Python or that Azure Machine Learning lets you write in Python, and I’m betting even fewer of you know that...
View ArticleConnect(“Live”); – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & TypeScript Live Q&A
This week we bring you another installment of our Connect(“Live”); // Q&A series, this time featuring Mads Kristensen, Damien Edwards, and Ryan J. Salva who work on core Visual Studio capabilities...
View ArticleRecap of Connect(“Live”); Q&A Events for February & March
Have you attended a Connect(“Live”); event? What? You haven’t? Well, then, here’s the details: These events are 1-hour long, informal, live-streaming chats with the product teams, providing you an...
View ArticleVisual Studio Partners with Unity, Unreal, and Cocos2d Game Engines
A moment ago, Soma blogged that today we’re announcing that Visual Studio has partnerships with three of the top gaming engine providers: Unity Technologies (creators of Unity3D), Epic Games (creators...
View ArticleUsing RequireJS with Visual Studio
As applications become richer and more complex, it becomes important to structure code so that it’s easy to refactor components independently. To understand how one piece of code depends upon another,...
View ArticlePyCon 2015 in review
A couple weeks ago we headed off to PyCon 2015. If you missed PyCon, there is another opportunity to come see us. PyData Seattle is hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in July 24-26. The call for...
View ArticleNode.js Tools 1.0 on GitHub and VMs Available
With the start of a new season of Game of Thrones, folks are sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see what’s coming. Unlike the Khaleesi who seems to be going nowhere fast, Node.js Tools for...
View ArticleBUILD 2015 News: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Team Foundation...
The Microsoft BUILD conference is typically a time when we release a lot of developer tools. This year we may have outdone ourselves. I’m going to talk a little about what we released today, but you’ll...
View ArticleIntroducing the Windows 10 Apache Cordova platform
Apache Cordova allows developers to write apps targeting iOS, Android, Windows, and Windows Phone with a single codebase using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Today, Apache Cordova support for Windows 10 is...
View ArticlePlaying with VS Extensibility
[Updated]In a presentation to developers in the //build keynote on Thursday, April 30, we demonstrated a Minecraft mod as an example of Visual Studio’s extensibility and ecosystem. With a gift for...
View ArticleGitHub Integration in Developer Assistant
Developer Assistant for Visual Studio is a productivity plugin that brings the combined power of Bing Code Search capabilities and contextual help to day-to-day developer problems, like resolving code...
View ArticleAnnouncing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio
Today, Steven Guggenheimer announced Microsoft's collaboration with GitHub and introduced several projects that make it easier for developers on GitHub to work with Visual Studio and Azure. In...
View ArticleTools for Apache Cordova in Visual Studio 2015 RC
We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2015 RC will include the Tools for Apache Cordova. Starting today, you can build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using web...
View ArticleIntroducing Visual Studio’s Network tool
Last week we announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 RC which includes a brand new tool to help you diagnose network related issues when building Windows apps across the Windows continuum from...
View ArticleTop News from April 2015
This top trending post is a collection of what we think are some of the top stories in April. This is our third such post (top news from February 2015, top news from March 2015) and we would love to...
View ArticleBuilding Mobile Apps with Ionic and Monaca
Cordova makes it easy to build an app for iOS, Android, or Windows using web technologies. While the Blank project templates provide all the raw materials to build your basic “Hello World”, you’ve told...
View ArticleDebugging Tips and Tricks
Unfortunately bugs are a part of software development, and despite our best efforts to write software correctly from the start we spend a lot of time in the debugger. While bugs are an unfortunate fact...
View ArticleExtending Visual Studio 2015
When we decided to expand Visual Studio 2015 in the hopes of making it *the* premier platform for cross-platform development, we acknowledged that the ability for our customers to extend, customize,...
View ArticleTools for Apache Cordova – Samples and Docs
Open source code is the norm for so many developers these days, and unsurprisingly, so is open documentation. From Azure to TypeScript, public repositories have become a go-to place for sharing...
View ArticleIntroducing the Project System Extensibility SDK Preview
We are very pleased and excited to announce the availability of the Project System Extensibility SDK. With it, you can define a new project type and begin writing extensions to customize the user...
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