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Visual Studio TACO Update 8 and new Ionic templates

April 4, 2016 Apr 4, 2016 04/4/16
Visual Studio Blog
Last week we announced many new Visual Studio updates, including Ionic support in the Cordova Extension for Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) Update 8. In this post, I’ll highlight the main changes included in the Visual Studio TACO Update 8 release – which you already have If you installed Visual Studio...

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 ...

Visual Studio “15” Preview Now Available

March 30, 2016 Mar 30, 2016 03/30/16
John Montgomery
At Build 2016 we shared a preview of the next version of Visual Studio, which we call Visual Studio “15” (not to be confused with Visual Studio 2015). The download is available here. This is a Preview and is unsupported, so please refrain from installing it on your production environments. This preview lays a lot of groundwork for vNext...

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 ...

Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub. Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity including Ctrl+Click Go to Definition, Copy As HTML, and Middle Click Scroll, just to name a few. Since their ...

Open Sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Visual Studio Blog
We’re excited to announce that we’re open-sourcing the Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools on GitHub. Productivity Power Tools, first released in 2010, is a pack of powerful extensions to improve developer productivity including Ctrl+Click Go to Definition, Copy As HTML, and Middle Click Scroll, just to name a few. Since their ...

Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7

March 9, 2016 Mar 9, 2016 03/9/16
Visual Studio Blog
Fresh on the heels of Update 6, we are happy to announce the release of Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 7 (version 60219.1). What’s New? In this update we have some new features as well as bug fixes. In this post I’ll share a little about some feature and bug fixes. Consume structured error data from Cordova You have told us...

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 ...