Recap 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 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 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 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 Preview
[Update 6/4: We've updated this post to clarify the roadmap of this project to become part of the Visual Studio SDK, once it moves past the Preview phase.]We are very pleased and excited to announce...
View ArticleTop News from May 2015
Hello everyone! Every month I share some top stories from the previous month. Here’s an overview of some top posts in May.Top Trending Content for May 2015.NET at Build 2015. On the .NET blog, Richard...
View ArticleShare Your Open Source Extension on the Visual Studio Gallery!
In a recent post on Extending Visual Studio 2015 we shared how easy it is to create Visual Studio extensions. We also shared links to our improved docs and to our presence on GitHub. Continuing in this...
View ArticleSave the date! Visual Studio 2015 Final Release
The final release of Visual Studio 2015 is coming soon! Mark your calendars for the celebrations on July 20th 2015. This event featuring tools for any developer and any app will start with Soma’s...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Released
[UPDATED 8/7] The final release of TFS 2015 is now available. Brian Harry's post highlights some key capabilities like Agile Project Management, Continuous Delivery, Git improvements, and...
View ArticleThe Visual Studio Partner Ecosystem
One of the unique values Visual Studio provides is that over and above the built-in features we have a multitude of extensions to address various niche development scenarios. These extensions are...
View ArticleVisual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0
Last week we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the...
View ArticleVisual Studio Customer Feedback Channels
We’ve shipped Visual Studio 2015 RTM and you have all been a key part of this with your feedback and great ideas, Thank you! But wait, that doesn’t mean your job is over :). We still need to hear from...
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