Visual Studio 2015 offers productivity gains and cross-platform development Your email has been sent After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions ...

I can't think of a work-related piece of software that has the number and breadth of community-sourced tools and extensions we enjoy for Visual Studio. It's astonishing every time I sit down to write ...

After a year of previews and one release candidate, Microsoft today officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its ...

Visual Studio has always been a big product with a raft of features that grew with each release. Visual Studio 2015 extends that trend in ways I never expected to see from Microsoft. Cross-platform ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Writing software is a complicated process. These new Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 extensions help your projects stay on schedule. Back in February I pulled together a list of 9 New Visual Studio 2013 ...

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Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to ...

This week Microsoft announced the editions that will be available for Visual Studio 2015, as well as their costs, when it releases the new version this summer. The lowest tier, Visual Studio Community ...

F#, a functional programming language developed by Microsoft Research, is getting a second generation of tools for use with the Visual Studio software development platform. Visual F# Power Tools ...

Microsoft today announced a large number of updates to its developer and DevOps tools and services at its Connect conference in New York. These range from a new free program for developers who are ...