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Microsoft.Bcl.Build Package Updated with Support for Conditional Import
The Microsoft.Bcl.Build package has been updated with support for conditional import and several improvements to those projects which are built using Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio Unit Test Generator with MSTest, NUnit, XUnit Support
The recently released, Visual Studio Unit Test Generator includes support for multiple test framework and enables you to unit test applications directly from within Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.
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Visual Studio Moves Closer to C99 and C++11/14 Support
The state of standards compliance with Visual C++ has long frustrated developers looking to use the newest (C++11) and not so new (C99) language features. Microsoft has now announced a road map that indicates when developers can expect to have these features available in a Visual Studio release.
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The Emergence of Visual Studio 2013
Less than 9 months after the release of Visual Studio 2012, Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2013 will be released this year. InfoQ looks at what has been announced so far.
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Xamarin 2.0 Brings a New IDE, Visual Studio Add-in for iOS and a Component Store
Xamarin has made yet another major step in completing their vision on providing a set of common tools for cross-platform mobile development. With the announcement of Xamarin 2.0 comes a rebranding of their products, a new IDE called Xamarin Studio, a Visual Studio add-in for iOS development, and a component store, the later being detailed by Miguel de Icaza for InfoQ.
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WiX v3.7 - MSBuild, Self Update and Reference Counting
The recently released WiX 3.7 includes support for MSBuild, self update and reference counting
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Windows Store Game Development with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit
Microsoft recently demonstrated the samples included with Visual Studio 3D Starter Kit for the development of 3D apps and games for Windows Store.
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Why Bother to Develop a Windows Phone 8 App
To date Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 is still a distant fourth in the battle for the hearts and minds of Mobile OS users. Google App Director, Clay Bavor stated that they ‘have no plans to build out Windows apps.’
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An Interview with David Starr, a Senior Program Manager in the Visual Studio ALM
David Starr, the founder of ElegantCode.com, a software craftsman, a technical and an agile instructor, talks about his new position at Microsoft, his vision of products, agility and his personal plans for future.
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Git-tf Combines Git With Multi-Platform TFS Support
Microsoft has released a new multi-platform Git tool that allows developers to interact with TFS-hosted source repositories. This open source tool allows developers to use TFS with any platform that supports the Java runtime including Windows, Macintosh OS X, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Solaris, and Linux.
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Agile 2012 Session: Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools Workshop
The Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools (AA-FTT) workshop was held on the day before the Agile 2012 conference in Dallas, Texas. Run as an open space, the session was open to anyone interested in talking about the future of functional testing tools and beyond.
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Smart Continuous Test-Runner For .NET – For Free
Mighty-Moose, a continuous build and test-runner for .NET, now comes free of charge.
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Xamarin’s Mono for Android Now Includes a Visual Designer
Xamarin has announced a visual designer for their Mono for Android development tool integrated with Visual Studio or MonoDevelop.
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EF Power Tools Beta 2 Introduces New Tools and Improved EF5 Support
Microsoft has announced a new release of EF Power Tools, which provide additional design-time tools for working with Entity Framework. This release introduces the ability to Generate Views and use T4 templates for reverse-engineered code, and includes improved support for Entity Framework 5.
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Microsoft Redefines AnyCPU for Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5
Visual Studio 11 and .NET 4.5 are changing the default runtime platform.