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Improving your build times with IncrediBuild and Visual Studio 2015

November 30, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 11/30/15
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IncrediBuild is a software acceleration technology that allows builds, tests, and other development processes to execute in parallel over a distributed network. It works locally on your development box and over a build server, and can also make use of idle CPU cycles in other computers over the entire network. In addition, developers with ...

Apache Cordova Face-to-Face Meeting, Fall 2015

November 2, 2015 Nov 2, 2015 11/2/15
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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 ...

Top News for September 2015

October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15
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Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for September. Open-source, cross-platform MSBuild: Continuing the open-source, cross-platform .NET story that is already well underway with .NET Core and the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”), MSBuild is joining the fun as...

Apache Cordova Customer Spotlight: WeatherPerfect

October 22, 2015 Oct 22, 2015 10/22/15
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(image) In this blog we typically share updates and improvements to Visual Studio itself. We also want to highlight examples of how developers use these tools to build compelling mobile apps. Meet Sverre Nøkleby, a developer from Norway who’s been building the very cool WeatherPerfect app using Apache Cordova. I interviewed him ...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1

October 9, 2015 Oct 9, 2015 10/9/15
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Today we’ve released Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 RC 1 (Release Candidate 1). This is the newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), the collaboration platform at the core of Microsoft's application lifecycle management (ALM) solution.  There are many feature updates in this update. Here’s a short ...

Update News: Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1, Visual Studio Emulator for Android, Tools for Apache Cordova Update 3

October 6, 2015 Oct 6, 2015 10/6/15
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Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1.1: This  update, which is what you’ll get with a new installation, fixes a bug in Tools for Universal Windows Apps 1.1 where Visual Studio failed to create a package for a UWP app that uses a WinRT component. You can find additional information and installation instructions in Generating Store ...

Announcing Tools for Apache Cordova (aka TACO) v1.0.0

October 1, 2015 Oct 1, 2015 10/1/15
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We are excited to announce the first official (aka 1.0.0) release of the TACO CLI today! Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO, for short) provides number of utilities for Mac and Windows users to develop with a set of platforms and plugins validated by our Visual Studio product team. Developers can also install the native Android and iOS (Mac-only) ...

Introducing U-SQL – A Language that makes Big Data Processing Easy

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15
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Microsoft announced the new Azure Data Lake services for analytics in the cloud that includes a hyper-scale repository, a new analytics service built on YARN that allows data developers and data scientists to analyze all data, and HDInsight, a fully managed Hadoop, Spark, Storm and HBase service. Azure Data Lake Analytics includes U-SQL, a ...

A Summer of ASP.NET: Catching up with .NET Web Developments

September 24, 2015 Sep 24, 2015 09/24/15
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Summer 2015 has come and gone (in the northern hemisphere at least!), and four releases of ASP.NET have hit the internet in that time. With the Visual Studio 2015 release in July the team released ASP.NET 4.6, a major update for our ASP.NET frameworks and tooling. Additionally, ASP.NET 5 beta 5 was released with Visual Studio 2015 so that ...