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August 2014 - Visual Studio Blog

Survey for Web App developers or Cordova developers

August 22, 2014 Aug 22, 2014 08/22/14
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When it comes to ensuring that code quality is high, methods and approaches vary by developer. The Visual Studio team would like to hear about the ways in which you ensure high code quality. Specifically, we are looking to developers building hybrid apps using Apache Cordova™ and/or developers building web apps, to provide feedback on ...

Survey on Xamarin usage with .NET or VC++

August 21, 2014 Aug 21, 2014 08/21/14
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Cross platform mobile device development is important: With bring-your-own-device trends in the enterprise, and heterogeneity in the consumer mobile device market, developers are increasingly focused on building apps that can target a variety of devices. We are committed to enabling developers to build apps for this heterogeneous, mobile-...

Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 Released

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14
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Today we released Visual Studio “14” CTP 3 and an early build of the .NET Framework vNext. Get it from the Microsoft Download Center or from MSDN subscriber downloads or save some setup time and use a ready-to-use VM in Azure. You’ll find a complete list of new features and fixes in the Visual Studio “14” release notes. Some ...

Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC

August 12, 2014 Aug 12, 2014 08/12/14
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Today we released the Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 RC for download on CodePlex. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio that supports programming with the Python language. PTVS supports a broad range of features including CPython/IronPython, editing, IntelliSense, interactive debugging, profiling...

Apache Cordova Tooling Update with Support for Windows 7

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
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This week, we released CTP 2.0 of our Extension for Multi-Device Hybrid App Development which enables developers to build apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using Apache Cordova™. This preview release, the third in three months, delivers several big features requested by customers via UserVoice, Twitter, StackOverflow and email – ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
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Today we released Update 3 for Visual Studio 2013 (you can read more on Brian Harry’s blog and Soma’s blog). To upgrade you can either download the update or install a full version of Visual Studio 2013 with Update 3 already installed from these links: Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate with Update 3 Visual Studio 2013 Premium with Update...