A Windows 10 preview targeting "fast-ring" testers is released ahead of Microsoft's conference season.
Cloud service for orchestrating microservices from within Visual Studio will have a preview at next week's Microsoft Build conference.
As the group gets absorbed back into Microsoft, the company will start up a new open source advocacy group, Microsoft Open Technology Programs Office.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/20/2015
Microsoft pulled its SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 after numerous reports of installation errors.
Z-Ray to provide productivity enhancements for PHP developers working within Microsoft's managed cloud service.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2015
Another preview of the Unity gaming debugging plugin will have support for the Unity 5 gaming platform update, as well as an Options panel for enabling/disabling new features as needed.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/14/2015
Microsoft announced general availability of its NoSQL service for developers and IT pros.
DevXpress releases Version 15.1 with numerous bug fixes, but there's also a streamlining of features and weeding out of experimental features and functions.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/09/2015
PSBuild acts as a PowerShell wrapper for the Microsoft Build Engine.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/09/2015
Kasey Uhlenhuth of the Managed Languages Team opens up about lessons learned in Microsoft's efforts to develop the upcoming "Roslyn" compiler with help from the open source community.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/08/2015
Availability, transparency of code is aimed at giving Visual Studio developers a leg up on debugging device drivers.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/03/2015
Still in pre-release, updates are coming out fast for Application Insights SDK for Web Apps, including new ways to share customized charts.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/02/2015
Newest version of Windows Library for JavaScript improves on cross-browser-enabled features and aims for improved compatibility with Windows 10 look and feel.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2015
Current Ultimate subscribers will notice a significant price reduction. Also: a Visual Studio 2015 timeline quick reference.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/01/2015
Azure API Tools for Visual Studio 2013 gives developers a quick path to connecting to third-party REST APIs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/30/2015
Microsoft debuts Node.js Tools for Visual Studio version 1.0 after a year of development.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/25/2015
Developers can start using the Azure-based App Service apps, with other cross-platform/cross-device services available in preview.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/25/2015
Windows Insider members can access the software development kit preview for building Universal Apps on the upcoming Windows 10 platform.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2015
The upcoming Microsoft Build Engine that will be part of Visual Studio 2015 is now an open source project on Github.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/23/2015
The collection of templates and functions for building Eclipse apps running on Azure now has support for building apps from Mac and Ubuntu.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/20/2015