The Azure developer exam discounts are part of a broader initiative by the Microsoft Partner Network to narrow the Azure deployment and development skills gap.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2016
Amazon and Microsoft are anticipating the serverless computing space to heat up, with support and developer tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/09/2016
Following the RC release of 2.1 nearly a month ago, the final version adds a few more tweaks to smooth the coding experience.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/07/2016
As the year winds down, so does the work being done by the Visual Studio Team Services team as it rolls out Sprint 109. Micrsoft's Brian Harry highlights build task versioning, pull request tracking, and support for Linux hosted build pools in this one.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/05/2016
Two new tools for cross-platform developers provide insight into app performance and allow for real-time XAML previews.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/29/2016
The Automated Typings Acquisition module that was disabled in VS Code 1.7 looks to be working as originally intended, and is now in a new incremental build available this week.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/23/2016
The Visual Studio 2017 RC from a week ago introduced speedier build and edit-debug tools for TACO, and an improved IDE for Unity game devs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/23/2016
Microsoft has been on the Linux bandwagon for a while, and many of the development tool offerings announced at this week's Connect(); event prove that the company is in it for the long haul.
The ability to embrace U-SQL jobs via authoring, scripting, extensibility via the VSCode environment and using C# is the key to this tooling preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/17/2016
The new name for what we've been calling Visual Studio '15' is actually the smaller of several big news items to come out of today's Microsoft Connect(); event oline. Among the bigger reveals is the preview of a Mac-native version of Visual Studio.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/16/2016
Microsoft Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie kicked off the Connect(); conference with an action-packed keynote where he revealed significant tooling improvements impacting mobile app development, containerized app dev, cross-platform mobile DevOps and serverless compute architectures, and more.
- By Michael Desmond
- 11/16/2016
One highlight of this roll-up release is the addition of row-level security and dynamic data masking, which were only available in the Enterprise version, are now in Standard, Express, and other versions.
It's like a better version of TypeScript 2.0, only this incremental update adds "smarter" inference and a bevy of other improvements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/11/2016
Visual Studio Team Services is at Sprint 108 this week, and it might seem like a lightweight with mainly fixes, but it does pack quite a few new features -- integrating Team-based collaboration features, build and replace enhancements, Docker support -- to be worthy of attention.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/10/2016
Changes take effect immediately, and MCP transcripts are being evaluated now. Also, new rule: New MCSE and MCSD titles will no longer expire (but there's a catch).
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/08/2016
Just as the Visual Studio team started rolling out the October 2016 Build version 1.7 this week, the team did an about-face with an incremental "recovery build" update that disables JavaScript IntelliSense for the time being. Still, there's lots of new and enhanced productivity and debugging features to check out in this version.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/04/2016
Microsoft Teams is a new chat-based service that's part of Office 365, used for real-time conversation and collaboration among various team members connected to projects. It's also being incorporated into Visual Studio Team Services.
- By Michael Domingo
- 11/02/2016
The first preview of the next incremental update to ASP.NET Core comes with a slew of new middleware components for speeding up app performance, while updates to .NET Core and Entity Framework Core come with mainly support additions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/26/2016
HockeyApp SDK for Universal Windows Platform apps is out now, supporting all HockeyApp features from within UWP apps on Windows 10, including full symbolication for .NET Native store apps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/21/2016
As Microsoft ends further development of LightSwitch, the "development" tool aimed at line-of-business types, it introduces an alternative: PowerApps.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/17/2016