Microsoft Visual Studio 2015

[Jorge-Vieira]

Microsoft slants Visual Studio 2015 for July 20 release, zeroes in on mobile developers



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Microsoft has announced (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2015/06/29/save-the-date-visual-studio-2015-rtm-on-july-20th.aspx) that Visual Studio 2015 will be available 9 days prior to Windows 10. Along with Visual Studio, .NET Framework 4.6 will be distributed and there'll be an update to Team Foundation Server. Visual Studio 2015 is notoriously adding new development tools for Android and iOS, revealing Microsoft's desire of catering to mobile developers who're not just developing for Windows.
S. Somasegar, Microsoft's vice president of the Development Division, who announced the news, views mobile as a new platform but clearly sees the writing on the wall when it comes to Android and iOS dominating personal computing.
Microsoft's attempt to win over mobile developers with Visual Studio is an obvious move to get their software products better integrated on iOS and Android. Although Microsoft is still pumping resources into Windows Phone, supporting the two most popular mobile platforms is key to keeping the company's services relevant. The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/29/visual_studio_2015_release_date/) notes that some mobile development tools in Visual Studio come from third parties, such as Xamarin's compilers for running C# in iOS and Android or Apache Cordova, which lets you run apps made in HTML or JavaScript across platforms.
The adoption rates for Visual Studio 2015 as a mobile development platform should be interesting to see. But Microsoft still has a way to go if it wants to woo developers away from Xcode or Google's Android Developer Studio.
Alongside Visual Studio 2015's updates for mobile development, the software is also adding support for video game coding. Visual Studio 2015 will now back popular game engines like Unreal.
Additionally, Microsoft continues to push Azure, their cloud computing software, by improving its ease of use in Visual Studio. But Microsoft's Azure still lags behind (http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-web-services-10x-the-revenue-of-microsoft-azure-says-analyst-2015-4) Amazon's Web Services, which reigns as king of the cloud computing industry.
Back in March, Microsoft announced a reformed structure for Visual Studio 2015's product packaging (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2015/03/31/announcing-the-visual-studio-2015-product-line.aspx). The main change is Microsoft's combination of their MSDN versions -- which is their in-house developer network -- of Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate into Visual Studio Enterprise 2015. Microsoft's ambitions for Visual Studio and the coding world in general is exciting, we'll just have to see if it pays off.



Noticia:
http://www.techspot.com/news/61189-microsoft-slants-visual-studio-2015-july-20-release.html

[Jorge-Vieira]

Visual Studio 2015 Now Supports All Major Apple and Android Devices

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If you’re a fan of programming here’s some news you may like. Ahead of the release date for their new operating system Microsoft have released Visual Studio 2015, their programming development environment.
With a list of languages supported straight out of the box such as; C#, C++, Java, JavaScript and SQL amongst the list of initial languages you can already see how this development environment will become a go-to for a lot of developers. Alongside the initial languages it is also possible to get the Android SDK and Xamarin libraries during installation, meaning that not only are Windows and PC’s supported but any Apple or Android devices can also be developed using the IDE (integrated development environment).
The one feature missing that is quite noticeable is the lack of Windows 10 Universal App support. The apps which are said to be better supported and more “universal” than those from the Windows 8.1 platform won’t be released until the operating system is released on the 29th July.
If you are looking at developing Android applications in Visual Studio you now have access to an android emulator which can run everything from Jelly Bean and KitKat to Lollipop. If you want to try your hand at Apple thought you will still need a Xamarin license, and access to a machine running OS X in order to run the compilers needed.
For those who like working in groups or on open source projects, the GIT support has been enhanced with better visual representations of everything from branches to commit history.
As a former Visual Studio user I can see myself returning (stopped using the IDE because I was working on languages other than .Net), and with these new features it seems Microsoft are keen on getting Visual Studio as the number one IDE for developers for any platform.
If you’re interested, the community version can be downloaded for free from here (https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/download-visual-studio-vs).
Thank you ArsTechnica (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/visual-studio-2015-launches-with-android-ios-and-even-apple-watch-support/) for the information.
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Noticia:
http://www.eteknix.com/visual-studio-2015-now-supports-all-major-apple-and-android-devices/

[Morais-GT]

Nice :)

A ver se começo a fazer umas brincadeiras para o meu Smartphone :D