Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer described the current state of the developer group's open source efforts in Redmond at a Live! 360 Conference keynote.
Microsoft and Red Hat join forces to provide more Red Hat solution capabilities in the Azure public cloud, as well as .NET Framework integration with Red Hat platform offerings.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/04/2015
Since March, Microsoft has had designs on taking the Microsoft Build Engine open source and cross-platform as it ports it to .NET Core in the coming months. Progress is in full swing now.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/07/2015
Microsoft's Jay Schmelzer kicks off Visual Studio Live! in Austin, Texas highlighting the company's latest open source efforts within Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Framework.
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
Z-Ray to provide productivity enhancements for PHP developers working within Microsoft's managed cloud service.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/16/2015
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
Microsoft debuts Node.js Tools for Visual Studio version 1.0 after a year of development.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/25/2015
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
Python Tools for Visual Studio adds a number of user-requested features, including a centralized comments window, and the ability to launch and configure multiple Python environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/16/2015
Adding real-time diagnostics and communication to a Windows Phone 8.1 application is no challenge for SignalR.
- By Nick Randolph
- 03/10/2015
Microsoft and Google to collaborate on building the second coming of the open source Web application framework, and TypeScript will be the tool of choice.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/05/2015
You don't have to reinvent the Web site to publish some documentation for your project. Take advantage of GitHub Pages to build almost point-and-click doc sites.
- By Terrence Dorsey
- 03/04/2015
There's no right answer to "What technology should I learn next?" But there is a way to manage your skills to maximize the return you get from them.