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

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
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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
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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 ...

Analyze CPU and Memory while Debugging

February 15, 2016 Feb 15, 2016 02/15/16
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Would you like to learn how to make your code run faster, use less memory, or just find out whether your code has a CPU or memory issue? Of course you would—you’re a developer! But then, memory and performance tuning often suffers from the pitfall of being an “important but not urgent” task that you simply can’t seem to get to ...

Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.2

February 4, 2016 Feb 4, 2016 02/4/16
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A few months back we released Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1 (VSTU), the first release to be natively supported by Unity on Windows, making it much easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE while developing Unity games. Today, we’re pleased to announce the VSTU 2.2 release that fixes common ...

Apache Cordova development lands on Visual Studio Code

January 28, 2016 Jan 28, 2016 01/28/16
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Thousands of developers already use Visual Studio’s Tools for Apache Cordova—affectionately abbreviated as “TACO”—to build mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows using a shared JavaScript codebase. Within the IDE, TACO provides everything you need to install and configure the native SDKs, preview your app, debug on emulators and ...

Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5

January 21, 2016 Jan 21, 2016 01/21/16
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Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new developer blog that you can follow to keep up to date with tips, tricks, and articles from our development team.New in Visual ...

Installing the Unreal Engine in Visual Studio

December 15, 2015 Dec 15, 2015 12/15/15
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As previously announced, Visual Studio has partnered with some of the most popular game engines to bring you an easy acquisition experience for game development tools.  Today we are pleased to confirm that we now provide the ability to acquire and install the Unreal Engine directly from the IDE. (image) What is Unreal Engine? The Unreal...

Unity 5.2 and Visual Studio Tools for Unity 2.1

September 8, 2015 Sep 8, 2015 09/8/15
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A few months back we announced a partnership with Unity. This makes it easier for game developers to use the rich capabilities of the Visual Studio IDE for building Unity games and to discover the tools for Unity from within Visual Studio. If you don’t already know about the Visual Studio Tools for Unity, check out the Visual Studio Tools ...