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Eclipse Juno and the Future of the Eclipse Platform
Eclipse Juno M5 was released last week, based on the Eclipse 4.2 platform. Although a revolutionary step towards the UI, some are concerned that the Eclipse Platform project needs more resources to be able to complete the transition in time for this Summer's release. Read on to find out more about the Eclipse Juno E4 transition.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Agile Support, Group Collaboration, and Clone Detection
VS11 will provide new tools that expedite unit testing, refactoring, and easier communication across the entire development team. These new components are intended to benefit everyone from developers, and testers to those deploying and maintaining the resulting application.
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Scala IDE 2.0 Adds Refactoring Support
Just before Christmas, version 2.0 of the Scala IDE was released. The Scala IDE project, started by Miles Sabin, and later joined by Typesafe to result in a production quality Scala development environment. InfoQ caught up with Typesafe's Iulian Dragos to ask what's new.
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NetBeans 7.1 Shipped with JavaFX 2.0 and CSS3 Support
Oracle have today released NetBeans 7.1, with a strong emphasis on GUI enhancements. The product includes developer support for JavaFX 2.0, significant updates to the Swing Builder (Matisse), and tools for visual debugging of both JavaFX and Swing user interfaces. For web GUI, NetBeans continues to flesh out its already strong HTML 5 coverage, adding support for CSS3.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: DirectX and SharePoint Features
Visual Studio 11 will introduce some new editor features intended to make developing for DirectX and SharePoint easier.
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WebStorm 3.0: JetBrains Provides a More Complete JavaScript IDE
WebStorm 3.0 adds support for Node.js, CoffeeScript, JSLint, JavaScript Unit Testing and includes enhancements of the JavaScript and XSLT debuggers.
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Preview of Visual Studio 11: Wither Performance?
Previous articles in our mini-series on the upcoming Visual Studio 11 have discussed new features of the supported programming languages and the IDE. Today we'll take a look at another important aspect that affects all developers using Visual Studio: performance.
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JetBrains releases AppCode, an IDE for Objective-C
JetBrains has released AppCode 1.0, their first release of an Objective-C IDE. It requires Mac OSX 10.5 or above. It requires the Apple Developer Tools to be installed (in order to access the simulator and developer headers) but provides more advanced refactoring and code smell detection. AppCode has a free 30-day trial, and discounted licenses until December 31st.
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Codify Development Environment runs on iPad
Two Lives Left have released Codify, a platform that allows game development using the Lua scripting language, which runs directly on an Apple iPad. Games can be created and demonstrated on the iPad, with auto-completion and tight editing. Codify is availbale on the App Store for US$7.99.
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Building Visual Studio Extensions with Roslyn
Yesterday we talked about the Roslyn Compiler and Workspace APIs. Today we take a look at the Roslyn Service APIs and how they can be used to extend Visual Studio. The extensions we will look at today are Code Issue, Quick Fix, Code Refactoring, Completion Provider, and Outliner.
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Macros Have Been Dropped from Visual Studio 11
As of version 11, macros will no longer be available in Visual Studio. This marks the first version in nearly a decade to not allow for crating ad-hock extensions to the IDE. Fully compiled extensions can still be created and new project templates are included to make that process much easier.
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Visual Studio 11 Preview is Now Available
The Visual Studio 11 preview is now available for MSDN subscribers with a general release planned in the next few days. Here is a brief summary of the features they are showing off at Build.
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MonoDevelop 2.6 Adds Git, Mac Support
Version 2.6 of MonoDevelop, the open-source IDE for .NET and Mono development, includes several new features, the most notable of which are Git integration and support for the Mac platform via the MonoMac add-in.
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Visual Studio vNext Code Editor Improvements for C++
Sumit Kumar on the VC++ team has revealed some of the new IDE features for the next version of Visual Studio. While some of them are merely catching up to VB/C#, others suggest new features that all of the languages could take advantage of.
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Official Support for Jython in Visual Studio
Python Tools for Visual Studio, which has its first production release today, now supports all four major Python interpreters, CPython, IronPython, Jython, and PyPy. It is available with the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell or as a plugin for Visual Studio Professional.