NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday,
Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to cross-platform
developer experiences by open sourcing the full server-side .NET
stack and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms.
Microsoft also released Visual Studio Community 2013, a new free
edition of Visual Studio that provides easy access to the Visual
Studio core toolset. The announcements kicked off Microsoft's
Connect (); event, where the company released Visual Studio 2015
Preview and .NET 2015 Preview.
"With billions of devices in the market today, developers need
tools that target many different form factors and platforms," said
S. Somasegar, corporate vice president, Developer Division,
Microsoft. "Through Visual Studio and .NET we are committed to
delivering a comprehensive end-to-end solution for developers to
build and manage applications across multiple devices and
platforms."
Open, accessible and cross-platform
Delivering on its promise to support cross-platform development,
Microsoft is providing the full .NET server stack in open source,
including ASP.NET, the .NET compiler, the .NET Core Runtime,
Framework and Libraries, enabling developers to build with .NET
across Windows, Mac or Linux. Through this implementation,
Microsoft will work closely with the open source community, taking
contributions for future improvements to .NET and will work through
the .NET Foundation.
"A strong, open source, cross-platform CLR opens significant new
options for building large server-based systems," said Brian McCallister, chief technology officer,
Groupon. "This significantly expands the choices developers have
when finding the right tool to solve their problem. I'm very
excited to have access to the quality virtual machine and tooling
of the CLR without having to completely rework our production
infrastructure in order to run it!"
Visual Studio for every developer
Available Wednesday, Visual Studio Community 2013 is a free,
fully featured edition of Visual Studio including full
extensibility. Targeting any platform, from devices and desktop, to
Web and cloud services, the community edition provides developers
with easy access to Microsoft's Visual Studio toolset for all
nonenterprise application development. Developers can get started
with Visual Studio Community 2013 here.
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015: build for any
device
Built from the ground up with support for iOS, Android and
Windows, Visual Studio 2015 Preview makes it easier for developers
to build applications and services for any device, on any
platform.
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 Studio, as well as announced the addition of Visual Studio
support to its free offering Xamarin Starter Edition — available
later in the year. In addition, for Web developers interested in
building cloud-powered apps that target mobile devices, Microsoft
delivered the final release of Apache Cordova tools. Developers can
get started Visual Studio 2015 Preview here.
Building for the cloud
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the preview of ASP.NET 5.0, a
streamlined framework and runtime optimized for cloud and server
workloads. In addition, the new Connected Services Manager in
Visual Studio 2015 makes it easier to connect applications to
line-of-business API services such as the Office 365 API and
SalesForce, among others.
Visual Studio Online: Agility and DevOps in the cloud
Building on a year of service enhancements, Microsoft announced
additional capabilities for Visual Studio Online, its online
service for development projects, by announcing additional
capabilities for the service, including these:
- Release Management as a service, available in preview,
to enable customers to automate and manage application releases
without the need to set up or maintain any service
infrastructure.
- Cloud Deployment Projects, to allow organizations to
more easily and reliably provision and configure development, test
and production environments in Azure.
Visual Studio 2013 update 4
Also on Wednesday, Microsoft announced the availability of
Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, the fourth fully featured update in
the past 12 months, which includes various productivity
enhancements and additional capabilities. Download and product
information can be found here.
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