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Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova Update 5

January 21, 2016 Jan 21, 2016 01/21/16

Visual Studio Blog

Welcome to the new year and a new Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) update! We just released Update 5 of the tools for you—full details are in the release notes—and we’ve created a new developer blog that you can follow to keep up to date with tips, tricks, and articles from our development team.New in Visual ...

Writing and Using Custom Code in U-SQL – User-Defined Functions

October 28, 2015 Oct 28, 2015 10/28/15

Visual Studio Blog

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...

Top News for September 2015

October 27, 2015 Oct 27, 2015 10/27/15

Visual Studio Blog

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...

The Road Ahead for the Feedback Channels

October 13, 2015 Oct 13, 2015 10/13/15

Visual Studio Blog

In two earlier posts (Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels and A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback) we talked about the different ways you could send us feedback for Visual Studio 2015 and I shared what happens with your Send a Smile feedback once it gets to Microsoft. In this post, I’ll talk about how we’...

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

September 28, 2015 Sep 28, 2015 09/28/15

Visual Studio Blog

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

Visual Studio Blog

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 ...

Top News for August 2015

September 14, 2015 Sep 14, 2015 09/14/15

Visual Studio Blog

Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for August. DevOps tops the list this month! Brian Harry leads the way with his announcement on Visual Studio Online’s September pricing and licensing changes (short read: a new less expensive, tiered pricing model went into ...

A Day in the Life of Visual Studio Send a Smile Feedback

August 25, 2015 Aug 25, 2015 08/25/15

Visual Studio Blog

Last time we talked about the Feedback Tools in Visual Studio 2015 RTM and I shared how you can send us feedback. In this post, I am going to share what happens to the feedback after you send it to us. There are two key goals that we have for the feedback that you share: The action taken could be any of these listed below (and I will...

Top News from July 2015

August 10, 2015 Aug 10, 2015 08/10/15

Visual Studio Blog

Hello everyone! Every month we share some top stories from the previous month, and here’s our round-up for July. Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download. Within the Visual Studio team, we’re clearly delighted with the release of Visual Studio 2015 as Soma announces on his blog! This release fulfills the promises we ...

Visual Studio Customer Feedback Channels

July 30, 2015 Jul 30, 2015 07/30/15

Visual Studio Blog

We’ve shipped Visual Studio 2015 RTM and you have all been a key part of this with your feedback and great ideas, Thank you! But wait, that doesn’t mean your job is over :). We still need to hear from you about what is good, bad, or ugly in VS 2015 so we can know what to do more of, what to fix, and what to avoid. We look at EVERY ...