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December 2014 - Visual Studio Blog

Build and Run using Cordova CLI

December 17, 2014 Dec 17, 2014 12/17/14
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With Apache Cordova, web developers can achieve maximal code re-use by building cross-platform mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. For details on how Apache Cordova works, read this blog. In order to build such a cross platform multi device application, Visual Studio uses a Cordova utility known as the Cordova command-line ...

Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio

December 16, 2014 Dec 16, 2014 12/16/14
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Today we are releasing the RTM version of Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio! To get started, download Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2013 or Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio 2012 from the Visual Studio Extension Gallery. This extension provides smart, contextual help to solve every day dev problems like searching...

Incorporate “Big Data” Within Your Visual Studio App Using Azure HDInsight

December 15, 2014 Dec 15, 2014 12/15/14
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To help make it easier to work with “big data” in your apps, we added support for Hive queries and management of data clusters with Azure HDInsight, the Microsoft Azure Hadoop cluster solution for Visual Studio. For Visual Studio 2012 and 2013, HDInsight support comes in a Visual Studio extension in the Azure SDK, and it’s baked into ...

Office 365 Client APIs for Hybrid Mobile Apps

December 8, 2014 Dec 8, 2014 12/8/14
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The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enable developers to build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows using web standards technologies. When used with the Office 365 API Tools for Visual Studio, developers can access Office 365 APIs from their hybrid mobile applications to access to the user’s calendar, contacts, mail, and files ...

iOS Build & Debugging with the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova

December 4, 2014 Dec 4, 2014 12/4/14
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The Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova enables developers to easily build a mobile app that targets iOS, Android, and Windows with web standards technologies. At the Connect() event in mid-November, we added iOS debugging to the existing support for Windows and Android (for both Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 and Visual Studio 2015 Preview). ...

Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview

December 3, 2014 Dec 3, 2014 12/3/14
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Two weeks ago during the Connect() event we announced the release of the Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.0 Preview. VSTU is Microsoft’s free Visual Studio add-on that enables a rich programming and debugging experience for working with the Unity gaming tools and platform. The support for Visual Studio 2015 Preview is one of VSTU 2.0 ...