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Survey: Tell us about your first experience with the Tools for Apache Cordova

February 2, 2015 Feb 2, 2015 02/2/15
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Even though we recently released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova, we are already busy working on the next series of improvements to help you more easily build Android, iOS, and Windows apps. For an upcoming release, one of the areas we are looking to improve is the overall experience around installing the tools and ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2 Released

January 26, 2015 Jan 26, 2015 01/26/15
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Today we released Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2, adding support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and making fixes in the IDE, Team Foundation Server, and Git support. The release notes have the complete list of features and fixes. As always, please give us your feedback, suggestions, thoughts, and ideas ...

Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 Available

January 16, 2015 Jan 16, 2015 01/16/15
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Today, we released Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5 with new features in debugging, diagnostics, the XAML language service, and ASP.NET 5 that we added after the November Preview release. While not a major release, this CTP is another opportunity for you to provide us with feedback as we make progress towards releasing. You can read about the new ...

Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova and the remote mac agent

January 12, 2015 Jan 12, 2015 01/12/15
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At the Connect(); event, we showed yet more of what we’re doing to enable developers to use Apache Cordova. Cordova is a framework you can use to build hybrid mobile apps that work across modern mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and others. Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you can create applications that take advantage of ...

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 ...

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). ...

Blend for Visual Studio 2015 Preview

November 13, 2014 Nov 13, 2014 11/13/14
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Yesterday we released a preview of Visual Studio 2015, and as part of that we are introducing a new Blend experience. We redesigned Blend for Visual Studio 2015 to provide you with a great user interface development experience for creating beautiful XAML apps. Blend has a sleek new look consistent with Visual Studio for improved workflow ...

Tools for Apache Cordova Update: iOS Debugging & Windows 8.1 Support

November 13, 2014 Nov 13, 2014 11/13/14
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At Visual Studio Connect(); we released an update to the Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova. These tools allow you to use Visual Studio to build Apache Cordova-based apps written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. What makes these apps special is that they allow you to marry the familiarity of coding using web technologies with the ability to ...

Visual Studio 2015 Preview, Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and More

November 12, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 11/12/14
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[UPDATED 8/5] Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Update 5, and .NET 4.6 were released on 7/20/2015. Check out this post announcing VS 2015 and VS 2013 Update 5 and this one announcing .NET framework 4.6. [UPDATE: 11/13] We have updated this post with links to detail blog posts on updated tooling for Apache Cordova and Blend for ...