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Visual Studio “15”: Installing Just What You Need

April 5, 2016 Apr 5, 2016 04/5/16
Visual Studio Blog
Over the past year, we've had the opportunity to chat with hundreds of you (developers), from those who use Visual Studio every day to those who have never used it. We observed how you setup your development environments and how they evolve and change over time. We learned that you spend a significant amount of time getting the right set of ...

Mobile App Development made easy with Visual Studio and Xamarin

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Visual Studio Blog
Last month, we announced that Microsoft acquired Xamarin and welcomed the Xamarin team to Microsoft. Today, in his Build 2016 keynote, Scott Guthrie laid out our plans for how Xamarin and Visual Studio will come together. If you haven’t already, check out Scott Guthrie’s keynote summary post and Nat Friedman’s blog. In short, we’re ...

Build Ionic Apps in Minutes with VS Code

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
Visual Studio Blog
With our Cordova Tools Extension for Visual Studio Code, you can use your existing web skills to build cross-platform hybrid mobile applications for iOS, Android, and other platforms. This means that you can create and maintain one project to target millions of potential customers using various mobile devices. One of the most popular ...

Introducing R Tools for Visual Studio

March 22, 2016 Mar 22, 2016 03/22/16
John Lam
R is a programming language that is widely used by data scientists, and developers seeking a more powerful tool to work with data. While data scientists use R to write programs, their work product is rarely the program itself. Instead, they produce reports or presentations from the results generated by their R program to help influence or ...

Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation and brings more tools to the community

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Visual Studio Blog
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires us to be open, flexible, and interoperable: to meet developers and development teams where they are, and provide tools, services and platforms that help them take ideas into production. This ...

Top news from January 2016

February 25, 2016 Feb 25, 2016 02/25/16
Visual Studio Blog
The year has gotten off to a great start and it seems that .NET, the web, and TypeScript get the prize for the most popular topics! ASP.NET 5 is dead: Did we get your attention with that heading? Well, it’s not dead at all, it just has a new moniker as Scott Hanselman explains in Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0. I love the ...

Node.js: From Zero to Bobble with Visual Studio Code

February 16, 2016 Feb 16, 2016 02/16/16
Visual Studio Blog
Node.js is a platform for building fast, scalable applications using JavaScript. It’s making its way just about everywhere – from servers, to Internet of Things devices, to desktop applications, to who knows what next? Ooh—I know what next...bobbleheads! (image) Bobblehead Generator Of course, we don't just want one bobblehead...we ...

Free Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program now includes $300 in Azure credits and Exclusive Xamarin University access

February 3, 2016 Feb 3, 2016 02/3/16
Visual Studio Blog
In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free. Over the past 75 days more than 400,000 developers have signed up for the program to take advantage of deep technical training from Pluralsight and Wintellect, as ...

Top News from October-December 2015, Part 2

January 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 01/27/16
Visual Studio Blog
In Part 1 of this post I shared news from the fall on Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, and languages. Here I’ll conclude the roll-up with news around Connect(); //2015, cross-platform development,. Visual Studio Code, Windows 10, and a little more. Connect(); //2015: Our second Connect(); event was, to my mind, even more impressive than the ...

Top News from October-December 2015, Part 1

January 26, 2016 Jan 26, 2016 01/26/16
Visual Studio Blog
It’s been a few months since our last roll-up of top developer stories, so I’ll be catching up with the news from last fall in two posts. We’ll start here in Part 1 with Visual Studio, .NET, ASP.NET, languages, and a few other tools for good measure. Part 2 will cover a variety of topics including Connect(); //2015, Windows ...