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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 ...

Mobile Apps for Web Developers

October 14, 2014 Oct 14, 2014 10/14/14
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The path of a mobile app developer often begins with a choice: develop for iOS, Android or Windows? It’s a choice that instantly diminishes the size of your potential audience, but developers often hold their nose and reluctantly make a decision. Those who need to reach all three app stores, choose to rewrite the application for each ...

Visual Studio “14” CTP 4 and TypeScript 1.1 CTP Released

October 6, 2014 Oct 6, 2014 10/6/14
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Today we released Visual Studio “14” CTP 4. To get started, download the bits (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads page), or use one of the VMs in Azure. This CTP includes all features and fixes from previous CTPs, and: ASP.NET vNext tooling and runtime updates. Visual Studio “14” CTP 4 supports NuGet Package Manager and ...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 RTM Available

August 4, 2014 Aug 4, 2014 08/4/14
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Today we released Update 3 for Visual Studio 2013 (you can read more on Brian Harry’s blog and Soma’s blog). To upgrade you can either download the update or install a full version of Visual Studio 2013 with Update 3 already installed from these links: Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate with Update 3 Visual Studio 2013 Premium with Update...

Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is here!

May 12, 2014 May 12, 2014 05/12/14
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We’re excited to share that the final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is ready to download. If you are already using Visual Studio 2013 then you’ll soon have a notification waiting for you in the notification hub to start the download and install Update 2 for Visual Studio 2013. If you haven’t started using Visual Studio 2013 you ...

TypeScript 1.0 Released and Open for Contributions

April 21, 2014 Apr 21, 2014 04/21/14
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Recently, we announced the release of TypeScript 1.0. In addition, we’re excited to say that TypeScript is now taking code contributions from the community. This is a significant milestone for the TypeScript project and team! TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds types to JavaScript to make it easier to build large-scale ...

The Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

April 4, 2014 Apr 4, 2014 04/4/14
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Release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 is now available to download. This update supports TFS 2013 Update 2 RTM as well as the Windows 8.1 Update 1 and Windows Phone 8.1 platform releases announced yesterday. Checkout Somasegar’s blog where he talks about these new releases, the .NET Native preview release, TypeScript 1.0 and more...