Articles about Visual Studio

How the specter of irrelevancy helped Microsoft Corporate VP Julia Liuson drive massive change

Yes, Satya Nadella is the visionary Microsoft CEO who five years ago began implementing a massive shift in operations that… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Visual Studio Live; Tech Diversity Summit; history of the PC; and more

— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them… Read More

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More

Two decades later, Microsoft’s Visual Studio looks to secure its role in a new world of technology

Microsoft this morning released Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its integrated development environment — continuing its expansion beyond traditional Windows… Read More

Microsoft to offer Xamarin for free with Visual Studio in new bid for Android and iOS developers

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will marry its newly acquired mobile development technology from Xamarin with its Visual Studio software development tools, expanding… Read More

Microsoft courts Linux, iOS and Android developers with new wave of technologies

Microsoft’s Developer Division is making a series of new moves in an attempt to expand its software development platform and… Read More

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2015, courts cross-platform developers to Azure cloud

Microsoft today released Visual Studio 2015, the latest version of its integrated development environment. Announced last year, the upgrade gives developers new… Read More

Developing apps for HoloLens: Inside Microsoft’s ‘Holographic Academy’

SAN FRANCISCO – It takes a special kind of person to encourage a room full of journalists to blow up the… Read More

Microsoft adds Minecraft mod support in Visual Studio

SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft announced today that it’s bringing support for creating Minecraft mods written in Java inside its Visual Studio development environment.… Read More

Microsoft’s Visual Studio expands to Mac and Linux with new ‘Visual Studio Code’ development tool

Microsoft this morning unveiled a new development tool, Visual Studio Code, that works across Mac and Linux in addition to Windows… Read More

Microsoft partners with GitHub to distribute Visual Studio to students

GitHub, the popular code hosting service, will include Microsoft’s Visual Studio Community 2013 in the GitHub Student Developer Pack, distributing Microsoft’s… Read More

News Brief

Microsoft to hold key event for developers next month

There are three words that make a very particular subset of people very excited: new developer tools. For them, a… Read More

Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, boosting support for Unity game engine

Microsoft has acquired SyntaxTree, the developer of the UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio. The UnityVS tool allows game creators to use… Read More

Microsoft’s Visual Studio meets Android and iOS with Apache Cordova integration

As a part of its TechEd conference in Houston, Texas today, Microsoft announced an update to its Visual Studio development… Read More

App time for Microsoft with Visual Studio, Windows Store

A certain product debut in California is getting lots of attention this morning, but Microsoft is making a push of… Read More

The coding game: Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

Is there anything that can’t be turned into a game? Apparently not. Microsoft today embraced the gamification trend by introducing a… Read More