Although there's a strong move in the direction of mobile, almost no one is giving up traditional desktop development.
It will RTM the same day Windows 8.1 hits general availability.
TechNet subscribers will also get early access.
Speculation has already started that Nokia CEO Stephen Elop may be in line to succeed outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/03/2013
The decision infuriates many developers, who won't be able to upgrade apps before GA.
The product is scheduled for an official release Oct. 17
No successor has been named, and no front-runners have appeared yet.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/23/2013
Scott Guthrie encouraged developers at the Visual Studio Live! conference this morning to take advantage of their Windows Azure credits through their Microsoft Developer Network subscriptions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/20/2013
Many devs still miss the Microsoft-built installer included with Visual Studio 2010 and earlier versions.
Other additions include SQL Server AlwaysOn failover.
The Nvidia CEO let slip the information that it's working with Microsoft on an update to the Surface RT.
The latest version fixes a compiler slowdown caused by the last version.
Year-over-year, Windows Phone device sales increased by 3.3 million.
The SDK also includes a virtual machine with a built-in VS 2013 instance.
The release aims to smooth the migration path to Visual Studio 2013.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 07/31/2013
A more recent version of the tools will be included in the VS 2013 RTM.
Currently, there is no plan to support WinRT development, although the company says it will consider it if demand is there.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/30/2013
Updates to the Amazon .NET SDK target Windows workloads.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 07/26/2013
Web tools include a memory profiler, JavaScript debugger, DOM Explorer and CSS inspector.
It's also being packaged as part of a separate product.