Azure SDK 2.7.1 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015 Released
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Azure SDK 2.7.1 for Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio 2015 has been released offering improvements to the Visual Studio Tools for Azure as well as providing enhancements of the customer experience for developers who are enrolled in either the DreamSpark or Cloud Solution Provider programs..The previous Azure SDK 2.7 release added support in Visual Studio 2015 for...
New App Monetization Capabilities With Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK
Thursday, August 20, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft is releasing several new capabilities that allow developers the opportunity to enhance app advertising revenues. These include a new Microsoft Universal Ad Client SDK for Windows 10; additional support for video interstitials on Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10; and ad mediation for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 apps to manage multiple ad SDKs ...
Highlights from Day Two of Microsoft Build
Thursday, April 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continued to announced services for the developer community on day two of of its Build conference. On a blog post Microsoft Chief Evangelist’s Steve Guggenheimer had this to say about the second day of the event, “ Kicking off Day 2 of Build today, I had the pleasure of expanding on the news and vision that Satya, Scott and Terry shared yesterday. We buil...
Beta Launch of Silver Native Swift Compiler for .NET CLR, Java Android JVM and Cocoa
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 by Richard Harris
Created by RemObjects Software, Silver is a native Swift compiler for .NET CLR, Java/Android JVM and Cocoa runtime. Currently in beta, Silver is not just a compiler, but a complete toolchain and development environment for creating apps.Silver is part of RemObjects Software’s Elements compiler tool chain which also includes two other languages (Oxygene, C#) and related ...
Microsoft Announces Final Release of Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio
Monday, October 20, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has made available the final release of Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio (PTVS) which is now available for download. PTVS is available for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2013. PTVS 2.1 supports the free Visual Studio Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop editions as well as Visual Studio Professional and higher.PTVS offer...
Microsoft Releases Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 Early Build of .NET Framework vNext
Friday, August 22, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released Visual Studio â14â CTP 3 and an early build of the .NET Framework vNext. This CTP includes all the Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 web tooling improvement and ASP.NET vNext alpha 3 runtime packages. It has improved tooling support for ASP.NET vNext, such as support for build configuration and support for unit tests, and it no longer...
CMake Tools for Visual Studio 1.2 Releases Update
Monday, August 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
CMake Tools for Visual Studio is an extension for Microsoft Visual Studio adding syntax highlighting and IntelliSense support for the CMake language. It supports Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2013. CMake Tools for Visual Studio is distributed under the Microsoft Reciprocal License, which allows unlimited free use of the software and...
Microsoft Releases Developer Updates for Visual Studio 2013 and Windows Phone 8.1
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 and Windows Phone 8.1 Update emulator package are both now available for mobile developers. Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, is the latest full-featured update to the Visual Studio toolset. It contains many new features, including Application Insights updates, Git repository support in CodeLens and Release Management support for Windows Desi...
Microsoft Updates Visual Studio Add on for Unity Gaming Tools and Platform
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Visual Studio Tools for Unity add-on (formerly known as UnityVS). It is now available for download on the Visual Studio Gallery at the following links:Visual Studio 2010 Tools for UnityVisual Studio 2012 Tools for UnityVisual Studio 2013 Tools for UnityVSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that provides a programming and debu...
Microsoft Previews Hybrid App Development Opportunity with Visual Studio Tooling for Apache Cordova
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among a number of announcements, Microsoft announced a preview of Visual Studio tooling for the Apache Cordova platform, allowing developers to build multidevice hybrid applications using their HTML and JavaScript skills.Visual Studio developers can build Windows, iOS and Android native applications with .NET and Xamarin or hybrid applications with Apache Cordova. Micro...
Developers Can Test Out Windows Phone 8.1 with New Windows Phone Preview
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
As of this week, developers can now install Windows Phone 8.1 on their dev phone through the Windows Phone Preview for Developers and try out a lot features that were announced at Build a couple of weeks ago. Along with the tooling delivered in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC, developers can now get everything they need to start building and testing Window...
Microsoft Announces New App Developer Opportunities at Build, Along With Windows Phone 8.1
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft continues to woo the app development community and announced several new new developer opportunities at Build 2014. The emphasis was on the Windows platform as a common platform across devices, a single toolset, a common infrastructure across the Windows and Windows Phone stores, and a clear commitment to interoperability. The company also annou...
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Are Updated
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is now available to download. The March 2014 Update ships with a number of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013 RTM. It also allows developers to build new types of apps for Off...
Windows App Developers Can Now Access New Emulators for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Windows Dev Center crew has announced on its blog that app developers can now download new emulator images for Windows Phone 8.0 Updates 2 and 3 from the Microsoft Download Center, and install them on existing Windows Phone SDK 8.0 installations.
The Windows Phone 8 Update 2 (8.0.10322) emulator images have been updated to support development enviro...
Gizmox Launches Visual WebGui Version 7 to Develop HTML5 Apps
Monday, December 23, 2013 by Richard Harris
Gizmox has announced the availability of Visual WebGui Version 7 which includes a new mobile feature set, an assessment tool for analyzing legacy desktop apps, and integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Visual WebGui allows Visual Studio developers to create HTML5 apps using only C# and visual designers, with no need to learn new programming languages.
V...
Microsoft and Xamarin Partner to Encourage Development of Native iOS and Android Apps With C# and Visual Studio
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Xamarin and Microsoft have established a partnership to help developers write native apps for iOS, Android and Windows in C#. At the heart of the partnership is a technical collaboration to better integrate Xamarin technology with Microsoft developer tools and services.
Through the partnership Portable Class Library (PCL) projects are now fully supported on both iOS an...
