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Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio

March 25, 2015 Mar 25, 2015 03/25/15
Visual Studio Blog
[UPDATE] We have updated this post. Look for an [UPDATE] tag to find the updates.  Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio (NTVS) is now available for download! NTVS is a free, open source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 that turns Visual Studio into a Node.js IDE. NTVS 1.0 supports the free Visual Studio Community ...

Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Preview

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15
Unni Ravindranathan
Today we announced the Visual Studio 2015 Tools for Windows 10 Preview. These tools enable you to build Windows universal apps that run across all Windows 10 devices from Windows Phone to Xbox and Windows Store. In addition, you can also use these tools to build desktop Win32 apps that leverage Windows 10 APIs. You can read more in this blog ...

Connect(“Live”); // WPF Team Live Q & A

March 20, 2015 Mar 20, 2015 03/20/15
Visual Studio Blog
(image) It’s been a busy week for the .NET teams here at Microsoft. We’ve just concluded our two day, live, free, dotnetConf 2015 event, with 19 sessions from both our product teams and community presenters. If you missed it, don’t worry. You can watch all the videos on-demand over at the dotnetConf 2015 Channel 9 page. ...

A Preview of Angular 2 and TypeScript in Visual Studio

March 12, 2015 Mar 12, 2015 03/12/15
Visual Studio Blog
Last week, at ng-conf, the Angular team at Google provided the web developer world with an update on the state of Angular 2. They were joined on stage by a member of the TypeScript team, Jonathan Turner, to also announce that Angular 2 will be built using TypeScript. Jonathan then demoed a preview of the upcoming TypeScript 1.5 release via an ...

Tools for Apache Cordova Update: Windows Phone 8.1 Debugging Support

March 10, 2015 Mar 10, 2015 03/10/15
Visual Studio Blog
For those of you running Visual Studio 2013, yesterday we released Tools for Apache Cordova CTP 3.1. This release contains a large number of performance and reliability improvements (many of which you’ve reported) along with support for Windows Phone 8.1 debugging. Note: If you use Visual Studio 2015 and have CTP6 installed, you already...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 Released

March 9, 2015 Mar 9, 2015 03/9/15
Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 3 released today, primarily focuses on bug fixes. The release notes and knowledge base article have the complete list of features and fixes. As always, please give us your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas on our UserVoice site, through the in-product Send-a-Smile and Send-a-Frown UI, or file a bug ...

Top News from February 2015

March 5, 2015 Mar 5, 2015 03/5/15
Visual Studio Blog
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as part of the process we gain insights into what you enjoy through your retweets, Facebook likes and shares, and other public opinions of our ...