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Answers to your top TACO questions

Last month I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion at the Microsoft Ignite conference where we discussed mobile app development. I spoke about Visual Studioโ€™s Tools for Apache Cordova (a.k.a. โ€œTACOโ€ for short) side-by-side with James Montemagno of Xamarin fame, Ankit Asthana from the Visual Studio C++ team, and Daniel ...

What’s new in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 for Universal Windows Developers

In Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, we introducedย support for building apps that target the Windows Anniversary Update SDK. Visual Studio โ€œ15โ€ continues where VS 2015 left off and brings several new experiences and enhancements for UWP developers. We have been focusing on improving three major areas: While youโ€™ll continue ...

Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

Today we released Visual Studio โ€œ15โ€ Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days weโ€™ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains weโ€™ve seen. Iโ€™m also going to point out some of the productivity enhancements weโ€™ve made. So kick off the installer here and ...

Join us this November for Connect(); 2016

Today, I am excited to announce that our popular developer event Connect(); is back for a third year on November 16th and 17th and will be live-streamed globally from New York City. I encourage you to save the date for what promises to be our best Connect(); yet. At Connect(); 2016, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie and Principal Program...