Visual Studio

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2017 will arrive on March 7th and it will be accompanied with a two-day virtual event demoing the tools new features.

Microsoft held its Connect conference today and announced at the event are Visual Studio 2017, SQL Server v.Next for Windows and Linux, Visual Studio for the Mac, and that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a platinum member.

Microsoft has announced that they will be bringing their popular Visual Studio development platform to OS X; the announcement is part of the company’s Connect (); conference in NYC.

Microsoft updates TypeScript language to 2.0. It’s an open-source superset of JavaScript, but said to be easier to use, more productive, create more reliable code, and compile down to standard JavaScript. Version 2.0 adds features such as non-nullable types and expanded control flow analysis. Plus tagged unions, the never type, this types for functions, and of course glob support…

Microsoft and Xamarin are hosting the Evolve 16 conferece in Orlando where the companies have announced several new development features and updates to existing tools.

Microsoft and Xamarin have completed the open sourcing of the Xamarin SDK for Android, iOS and Mac.

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code platform has reached milestone 1.0 and it currently has 500,000 monthly active users and 1,000 extensions.

Microsoft announced at Build that Xamarin will be free for Visual Studio Enterprise users and that they will be open-sourcing some of the technology.

Microsoft has announced that they are canceling their Android bridge, Astoria and also gave a few hints about what to expect at Build 2016.

Microsoft has announced that they have acquired Xamarain, a development platform that works well for building mobile applications.