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Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio Released
Since our first stable release of Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) earlier this year, we have seen a lot of interest in this free extension. We are both humbled and excited by the response and community engagement on GitHub. We’ve been hard at work developing interim releases with the support of our vibrant community. And today, we are pleased to announce that our next stable release of Node.js Tools 1.1 for Visual Studio is available for download. NTVS 1.1 supports Visual Studio 2012, 2013, 2015 (including the free Visual Studio Community Edition and Express for Web). To learn more about NTVS v1...
News and Announcements at Connect(); //2015
Today we held the Connect(); //2015 event in New York, where we introduced many new products and features that we’ve been working on. In this post I’ll share the highlights with you, and you can watch the Connect(); event along with many additional on-demand videos on http://www.visualstudio.com/connect2015. Visual Studio Code beta release. In this beta of Visual Studio Code we have done the following: To find out more about the VS Code announcements visit the VS Code blog. .NET Core 5 RC and ASP.NET 5 RC with Go-Live license. The release candidates of both .NET Core 5 and ASP.NET 5 ...
Announcing the Intune App SDK
One of the challenges enterprises face in a cloud-first, mobile-first world is protecting sensitive data in the face of an increasing number of business critical mobile apps running on employee owned devices. To help tackle these challenges, Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) is designed to help organizations manage mobile devices and applications. This is achieved by helping organizations maintain a single identity across a number of apps and keep sensitive company and personal data protected not only on Windows but Android and iOS as well. As a core part of EMS, the recent Microsoft Intune relea...
SAP Fiori Mobile Apps and Tools for Apache Cordova
Cordova makes it easy to build an app for iOS, Android, and Windows using web technologies. Although Blank project templates in Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova provide all the raw materials to build your basic “Hello World”, you have also told us that you would like to see richer starting points. We have covered starting points for frameworks like Ionic and Monaca in the past, but today we are going to take a look at how a major business platform company is working towards this goal with Cordova and Visual Studio: SAP. SAP, SAP Fiori, and the SAP Mobile SDK As the market leader in enterprise ...
Talk with our Apache Cordova Tooling team, live!
In the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova team, we’re always looking for ways to connect with developers using our tools to create mobile apps. Starting next week, we’re taking a cue from the ASP.NET team and trying a new format – live, weekly, community question and answer sessions via our http://taco.visualstudio.com/live site. We’ll be taking questions from attendees as well as responding to issues posted to Stack Overflow. To learn about our schedule and how to attend, visit the Cordova Tools Live Q&A website. We’re going to host these events for the next two months; base...
Developer update for Microsoft Band
It’s been a year since we launched Microsoft Band and Microsoft Health. We’ve made a commitment to the developer community to make our ecosystem open and accessible on every platform. Since then, we delivered three developer tools around our devices and services: Microsoft Band SDK, Microsoft Band Web Tiles, and Microsoft Health Cloud APIs. And as our devices and services evolve, we’re making continuous improvements to these tools. With the recent announcement of the new Microsoft Band 2, we released updates to the Band SDK to add support for the new device. We’ve also released the officia...
Apache Cordova Face-to-Face Meeting, Fall 2015
Microsoft hosted an in-person meeting in mid-October for Apache Cordova committers and developers. The goal was to two-fold: (1) advance conversations around Apache Cordova's future road map and (2) review the project health and, where necessary, create an action plan to address any quality issues identified by developers. The themes of the meeting included our commitment to making Apache Cordova and its plugins a stable platform. This meeting was similar to the hour-long virtual conversations that Cordova committers usually have every month, but with more time dedicated to cover all the topics. In attendance wer...
Visual Studio Update 1 RC
Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC, which builds on the Update 1 CTP we released three weeks ago. In addition to the features introduced in the CTP as described here, the Release Candidate includes the following: For a complete list of features in Update 1 RC and information on bug fixes and known issues, see the Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 RC Release Notes. Important note: the Visual Studio Emulator for Emulator and Microsoft Test Manager will not be able to acquire online licenses when used with Visual Studio Update 1 RC installed. Therefore, we recomm...
Writing and Using Custom Code in U-SQL – User-Defined Functions
In my last blog post, I introduced U-SQL as the new Big Data query language for the Azure Data Lake that unifies the benefits of SQL with the expressive power of your own code. Today we are announcing the availability of the Azure Data Lake in public preview. You can now try U-SQL in Visual Studio and run it over massive amounts of data in the store and across relational store such as Azure SQL Database. In this blog post, I will dive a bit deeper into how you can extend U-SQL queries with custom code. One of the major values of U-SQL is how easy it is to add user-specific code written in C#. Because U-SQL&rsquo...