Visual Studio 2015 can create cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin, such as the Xamarin.Forms app shown, as well as with Apache Cordova wrappers for HTML5 apps.

SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing ...

Microsoft today announced new integrations with source-code repository startup GitHub, including an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and GitHub code samples in the Bing Developer Assistant extension.

New versions of Visual Studio have always revealed Microsoft's latest thinking. Visual Studio 2015 clearly shows Microsoft's commitment to cross-platform app dev Last week Microsoft finalized its ...

To further support cross-platform mobile development with .NET, as part of their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Xamarin announced a new streamlined experience for installing Xamarin from Visual ...

After looking at the preview of Visual Studio 2015, Tony Patton says his overall first impressions of the release are favorable. Here are its standout features.

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft today is making available the release candidate for the upcoming Visual Studio 2015 software for building apps, five months after issuing a preview. Also today, the ...

With Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft is trying to ensure that Windows remains the main development platform, even if the applications being developed aren't for Windows at all.

SharePoint Application Pages provide truly flexible functionality across all the sites within a SharePoint front end. You can use Visual Studio to create those pages, with the added bonus of securing ...