.NET Core 3.0 is here
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0. It includes many improvements, including adding Windows Forms and WPF, adding new JSON APIs, support for ARM64 and improving performance across the board. C# 8 is also part of this release, which includes nullable, async streams, and more patterns. F# 4.7 is included and focused on relaxing syntax and targeting .NET ...
Ballerina cloud native programming language launches
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The growth of digital services, mobile apps, and connected devices are creating an explosion of endpoints, from APIs to events, data streams, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets. Developers today need a more modern and agile approach to connect to these endpoints than a traditional centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) can offer. Ballerina 1.0, n...
IoT Developer Survey 2019 released from The Eclipse Foundation
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
The Eclipse Foundation released the 2019 IoT Developer Survey that canvassed more than 1,700 developers about their IoT efforts. The survey was conducted by the Eclipse IoT Working Group in cooperation with member companies (including Bosch Software Innovations, Eurotech, and Red Hat), and support from the IoT community at large.
IoT developers are driving real...
Microsoft announces Visual Studio 2019
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Christian Hargrave
Microsoft announced general availability for Visual Studio 2019 – offering innovative and intelligent solutions that increase developer productivity. With Visual Studio 2019, we’ve focused on what’s important to developers by adding numerous productivity improvements, enhanced collaboration, and faster tooling that bring the best experience to develope...
Google Flutter comes out of Beta to help speed up native development
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
For cross-platform mobile development, developers generally have to choose between either building the same app multiple times for multiple operating systems, or to accept a solution that trades native speed and accuracy for portability. Flutter provides a solution that gives developers the best of both worlds: hardware-accelerated graphics and UI, powered by native ARM...
CSHTML5 released to build HTML5 Apps with CSharp
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
C#/XAML for HTML5 just entered the last stage of development before its 1.0 milestone. Known as CSHTML5, this Visual Studio extension will be released by Userware on Feb 26 as a Release Candidate, providing developers with a new way to develop web apps.Developers are now able to use C# and XAML to write apps that run in the browser. Absolutely no knowledge of HTML5 or J...
OutSystems' new features help enterprise IT adopt LowCode
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
OutSystems announced the release of multiple new DevOps features that aim to help enterprise IT shops realize the benefits of low-code development. While enterprise IT struggles with established DevOps toolchains for their legacy platforms, OutSystems can now be easily integrated into these toolchains to allow seamless deployments across legacy technologies and modern l...
Pythonpowered machine learning with Anaconda and MS partnership
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Anaconda, Inc. has announced it is partnering with Microsoft to embed Anaconda into Azure Machine Learning, Visual Studio and SQL Server to deliver data insights in real time. Microsoft and Anaconda will partner to deliver Anaconda for Microsoft, a subset of the Anaconda distribution available on Windows, MacOS and Linux. Anaconda, Inc. will also offer a range of suppor...
5,000 developers and professionals responded in Skill Up 2017
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 by Richard Harris
Nearly 5,000 developers and tech professionals across the world responded to Packt’s third annual Skill Up survey to share their thoughts on the latest tech tools and trends, and how they work and learn. Skill Up 2017 also investigated wider questions about the tech industry - from its status and value in organizations and industry, through to urgent issues around diver...
With DevOps security must work differently
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
Because “software is eating the world,” as Mark Andreessen famously noted, application security gets harder every day; every line of code written opens organizations to new vulnerabilities and breaches. Furthermore, legacy solutions, such as static analysis, dynamic analysis and web application firewalls have failed to keep pace with Agile and DevOps practices. Teams ne...
WhiteSource Bolt detects vulnerable open source components
Thursday, March 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
WhiteSource, a continuous open source security and compliance management company, has announced the launch of a new open source management tool integrated within the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) platforms - the WhiteSource Bolt (Bolt).Bolt is fully immersed within the VSTS and TFS products, so users can detect vulnerable ...
Angular and VS 2017 support from Progress comes with new UI components
Thursday, February 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Release of Telerik DevCraft R1 2017 enhances offerings for modern web and mobile UI developmentProgress announced the latest release of the Progress Telerik DevCraft suite, a complete UI toolbox for web, mobile and desktop development. New capabilities support the latest programming frameworks and IDEs, including Angular, Visual Studio 2017, jQuery 3, ASP.NET Core and X...
Sencha opens up about SenchaCon, developer challenges, and platform updates
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
Sencha, a company that provides developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build cross-platform web application experiences, recently held its sixth user conference SenchaCon, the largest universal application event in the world. We caught up with Sencha’s CEO Art Landro to learn more about two announcements the company made at SenchaCon: an enhanc...
New VS plugin from Checkmarx lets DevOps teams to rapidly embed security
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Checkmarx just announced a new Checkmarx plugin for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services platform. The new Checkmarx (CxSAST) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Plugin allows organizations with agile development practices to embed security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) without the delays traditionally caused by application security t...
Connect() 2016 Announcements from Microsoft
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft’s developer event Connect() 2016 just kicked off in New York, and Microsoft shared announcements that demonstrate its vision of enabling the future of development for any developer, building any application, on any platform.Highlights of the new partnerships and updated developer tools, services and offerings from Visual Studio and SQL Server announced during,...
DOES16 Opens Discounted Registration
Friday, September 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
IT Revolution just announced the conference program for the 2016 DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES16). The event, which aims to identify and amplify DevOps best practices for technology leaders of large enterprises, will be held in San Francisco from November 7-9. For a limited time only, attendees can receive a 20 percent discount when they register to att...
Connect Apps, Data, and Devices Anywhere With the New Azure Logic App Service
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released into general availability Azure Logic Apps, Microsoft’s Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that provides hybrid application connectivity to connect traditional on-premises systems and cloud-native applications. Logic Apps makes it possible to complete projects faster and iterate more efficiently by offering a set of out-of-the-box conn...
SmartBear Adds .NET Framework Functionality to Its API Testing Framework
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced that API developers using Visual Studio to build software using the open source .NET Framework can now utilize the SmartBear’s Ready! TestServer API testing framework.In April SmartBear announced similar support for Java developers using tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ and others. With the .Net announcement developers can now use the open s...
Release of Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 Supports Agile Development
Monday, May 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Qlik has announced the availability of its Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform. With this latest release, Qlik has improved its Agile management and administration capabilities to support IT with more effective auditing, configuration, and governance for multi-geography deployments. New user interface enhancements in the Qlik Mana...
VersionOne Releases Updates to Agile Lifecycle Management Platform
Monday, April 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
VersionOne has announced its Spring 2016 Release of its VersionOne Lifecycle, an agile lifecycle management platform. The platform supports Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, hybrid and other development methodologies. It offers an integrated platform that provides over 70 pre-built integrations to commercial and open-source development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio, Ecli...
Weighing the Benefits of Developing Apps with Xamarin
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Eric N. Shapiro, ArcTouch’s CEO and Founder, to discuss the company’s experiences working with Xamarin. With his first computer program written in 1978 and his first software company making a profit before he could vote, Eric Shapiro has a proven track record of entrepreneurial success.ADM: Why do your developers use Xamarin? Shapiro: ...
Complete the Feedback Loop and Go Mobile with DevOps
Monday, April 18, 2016 by Sam Guckenheimer
There’s no doubt technology is more mobile than ever. Across the globe, people are spending more time with mobile devices than PCs. Businesses are optimizing their processes for a mobile world and devices have become the primary means of connecting to that rich new flow of information. Simply put, we have passed the tipping point with mobility and there is no going back...
Microsoft is Bringing Facebook's Open Source React Native to Windows
Friday, April 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Among the announcements at Facebook’s F8 developer conference was the continuation of the company’s efforts with its open source React Native platform for building iOS and Android interfaces. Included in the announcement is the news that Microsoft is bringing React Native to the Windows ecosystem, giving developers the ability to build React Native on Windows PC, P...
New Universal Windows Platform Tools Offer Significant Updates to .NET
Friday, April 15, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
At Build 2016 Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 which offers a significant update to the tools for building Universal Windows apps for many new classes of Windows 10 devices such XBOX, HoloLens, and Surface Hub (in addition to Phone, PC, and IoT)On the heals of Microsoft’s announcement of its Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, the company is ...
SmartBear Releases New Agile Development Test Automation Tool
Friday, April 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SmartBear Software has released a new developer focused test automation tool, TestLeft which allows developers working in an Agile and continuous delivery environment to create tests within IDEs, which helps reduce test creation and maintenance time.TestLeft is a testing tool for developers who are testing in Agile teams. It fully embeds into standard development IDEs s...
Microsoft Offers Developer Updates for Microsoft Office and Azure Services
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
In addition to the announcements we covered here during the Microsoft Build 2016 developer conference, there is now new functionality for developers to leverage Microsoft Office, Xamarin’s capabilities in Visual Studio Community, and new Azure Services.Microsoft Office PlatformAmong the new opportunities for developers to build on the Office platform includes ...
Microsoft to Acquire the Xamarin Mobile App Development Platform
Thursday, February 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire Xamarin and its mobile app development platform. The two companies have a history of working together as the companies collaborated in building Xamarin integration into Visual Studio, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility SuiteIn conjunction with Visual Studio, Xamarin provides a mobile develop...
Learn How to Use Windows Bridge for iOS
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Windows dev team has created a series of blog posts to help developers dive into using the Windows Bridge for iOS to create Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps that can run on Windows 10 devices using iOS APIs and existing Objective-C code. Getting Started with Windows Bridge for iOSTo get started with the bridge developers need to Install Visual Studio. Thos...
Latest Windows App Studio Beta Update Provides App Design Improvements
Monday, January 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Windows App Studio Beta is a free, online app creation tool that provides a simple way to quickly build Windows and Windows Phone apps as well as generates source code ready for Visual Studio. With this latest release, Microsoft is providing new features, design related improvements, and new templates. Among the new features are:- WordPress Data Source: There is a ...
Red Hat's Mobile App Platform Includes New Push Notification Capabilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The main focus of the recently released Version 3.6 of the Feed Henry’s (which is now owned by Red Hat) cross platform Mobile Application Platform (MHP) is the integration of the Aerogear UnifiedPush Server into the platform which provides improved iOS, Android and Windows Phone push notification functionality. Also new is Windows 10 support.With the UnifiedPush Server ...
Mobilize.Net's Silverlight Bridge for Universal Windows Platform is Now Generally Available
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Mobilize.Net Silverlight Bridge has been released for general availability. The tool significantly reduces the work involved to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and is offered as a free add-on for Visual Studio.The Silverlight Bridge automates a big part of the conversion process from Windows Phone 8.x code to ...
Perfecto Mobile Releases Mobile Testing Integrations for Visual Studio
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfecto Mobile has released new integrations for mobile testing with Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. These integrations connect Perfecto’s cloud-based test lab, Continuous Quality Lab, to Microsoft’s developer tools to allow automated mobile web and app testing via the cloud. The new functionality now allows integrations to work in a single IDE f...
Xamarin 4 Adds Platform Improvements to Create CrossPlatform Apps
Monday, November 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Xamarin has released Xamarin 4 offering enhancements to the companies cross platform development platform including additions to the Xamarin Test Cloud and the new Xamarin Insights real-time app monitoring service.New improvements include functionality for developing iOS apps in Visual Studio, Mono/.NET upgrades, improvements to Xamarin’s iOS and Android designers, a ne...
Microsoft Brings New Tools to Windows Bridge for iOS
Monday, November 23, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Released in August of this year, the Windows Bridge for iOS is an open-source project that provides an Objective-C development environment for Visual Studio and support for iOS APIs to allow iOS developers to make Windows apps by reusing existing Objective-C code and their iOS development skills .Microsoft has continued to add functionality to the platform since its rel...
Perfecto Mobile Offers New Mobile Testing Integrations for Visual Studio
Sunday, November 22, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfecto Mobile is offering new integrations for mobile testing with Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (available Dec. 20) and Visual Studio Online (available now) connecting its cloud-based test lab, Continuous Quality Lab, to Microsoft’s developer tools to enable automated mobile web and app testing via the cloud. Companies can access the integrations to work in a single ID...
