Newest version of Visual Studio (including a new, blue UI) available for download now

April 4, 2013 3:00 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Microsoft's actually quite magical IDE now contains features that let devs focus on agile planning, Windows Store development, quality enablement, and line-of-business development.

Microsoft wants you to build apps for Office using these new tools

March 4, 2013 3:16 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

You'll be able to build, test, and roll out your very own Office-integrated apps to an audience of millions and millions. The tools will also let you deploy apps for SharePoint.

Xamarin debuts iOS and Android app development inside Visual Studio for C# programmers

February 20, 2013 6:04 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

If you develop in C#, you can now build apps for iPhone and iPad ... and hundreds of millions of Android smartphones and tablets. And you can do it all right on your PC in your favorite development environment, Visual Studio.

Visual Studio + Git: Microsoft development tools now support open-source version-control system Git

January 30, 2013 9:29 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Microsoft development tools such as Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server now support Git, the open-source version distributed version control system for software projects.