Ignite 2020: New Windows enhancements for developers coming
The company paid recognition to its former flagship platform Windows by announcing a plethora of developer-friendly features at its enterprise cloud conference.
JavaScript
What's so great about Visual Studio Code?
When Visual Studio Code was released I was skeptical. So skeptical you would not have caught me dead repeating the title of this article. My tool belt consisted of Visual Studio 2013 and Notepad++ for quick edits. Since my workload ... Read more
TypeScript 3.0, Microsoft’s extension of JavaScript, his general availability
TypeScript 3.0 comes with a few breaking changes, and a new scalable way to structure projects.
Microsoft Edge celebrates open source ChakraCore's first anniversary
The open source Edge’s ChakraCore javascript engine is a year old, and the company is still focused to bring its JavaScript engine to macOS and Linux.
Microsoft quietly launches HoloJS, create holographic apps using JavaScript and WebGL
HoloJS, Microsoft's new framework for creating holographic apps using JavaScript and WebGL should make it easier for developers to embrace the Windows Holographic platform.
TypeScript 2.0 Release Candidate announced, production version that much closer to release
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds things like classes and interfaces to provide convenience to programmers.
Microsoft is bringing Edge's ChakraCore javascript engine to Linux and OS X
Microsoft announced the first experimental implementation of the ChakraCore interpreter and runtime for x64 Linux and OS X 10.9+.
Microsoft rolls out TypeScript 2.0 beta
Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out TypeSript 2.0 beta.
Edge Javascript improvements coming with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, scoring well on "synthetic" benchmarks
Data collected over the past year has helped the Microsoft Edge team develop updates to its JavaScript performance in Edge and Chakra in preparation for its Windows 10 Anniversary Update release.
Everything new in TypeScript highlighted at Build 2016
Microsoft provided a session on TypeScript, the company's free and open source JavaScript implementation, at Build 2016.
Microsoft releases open source Cordova Tools extension for Visual Studio
Microsoft has announced new ways to build, debug, and preview Cordova apps using the VS Code and the Cordova Tools extension.
Microsoft to open source most of Chakra JavaScript engine
Today at JSConf Last Call in Florida, Microsoft made something of a bombshell announcement: they're open sourcing much of their Chakra JavaScript engine. The company will host ChakraCore on GitHub, beginning early next year. ChakraCore is most of what's included in ... Read more
Microsoft releases TypeScript 1.6 tool for Visual Studio 2015
Microsoft has announced the release of TypeScript 1.6. For those unfamiliar with TypeScript, it is a programming language developed by Microsoft as a superset of the prolific web development language JavaScript. JavaScript powers the dynamic functionality behind every modern website ... Read more
Visual Studio 2015 final release event starts at 8:30 PDT
Microsoft's latest version of Visual Studio, the popular integrated development environment, is available today and comes with a new cross platform support to help developers build regardless of what platform they are coming from. S. Somasegar, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Developer ... Read more
JavaScript performance was a top priority for the Microsoft Edge team
JavaScript is one of the main coding languages which drives the modern web today. Browsers with less than optimal JS performance means most sites could be slow or unresponsive. This leads to an overall bad user experience. Browsers like Google ... Read more
Intel has been contributing to the larger Microsoft Edge codebase
Some would argue that Microsoft’s long-time partnership with Intel was a blessing and a curse. It benefited Microsoft to have a chip maker who’s product help power their OS. However, some would argue that Microsoft was shackled by Intel’s development schedule. Regardless ... Read more
Windows 10 will help expand the Chakra engine beyond the Edge browser
The Microsoft Edge browser is powered by the Chakra JavaScript engine, for those that didn't know. The new engine also powers a few other Windows 10 applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. As JavaScript continues to increase in popularity, some developers are ... Read more
Here are the legacy technologies that were removed in Microsoft Edge
For the past few months, Microsoft has been touting the lightweight design of its new browser, Edge. The browser project formerly known as Project Spartan has undergone some significant changes in order to keep up with modern browsing trends. While ... Read more
Microsoft releases WinJS 4.0 Preview for Windows App and web development
With WinHEC behind it, and a mountain of information out in the atmosphere, Microsoft seems set to push the app development train full steam ahead. Earlier this week preview tools for developers were finally released for Windows 10. Developers were also ... Read more
New Spartan browser in Windows 10 to get significantly faster with asm.js
Microsoft has begun development to include support for asm.js in its Chakra JavaScript engine, as part of a plan to boost JavaScript execution speed with Chakra in Windows 10. Asm.js uses a subset of JavaScript that can compile code to run at ... Read more