NEW YORK, Nov. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday,
during its annual Connect(); developer event, Microsoft Corp.
reinforced its commitment to providing the best experience for any
developer, on any device or platform, with several new and updated
developer tools and programs from Visual Studio, Azure, Office and
Windows, including many new free offers.
"As a developer company we want to empower developers with open
and flexible technologies that enable innovation on their terms,"
said Scott Guthrie, executive vice
president, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft. "The additions of
Visual Studio Code beta, the free Visual Studio Dev Essentials
program, and .NET Core RC for Linux, OS X and Windows show that
Microsoft is now the company working hardest for all
developers."
Making powerful tools available to any developer
Microsoft is working to help all developers be successful with
powerful tools that enable innovative scenarios. Building on its
proven history of innovation with the .NET Framework and Visual
Studio, Microsoft is empowering more developers through the
introduction of several free new tools and services.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the immediate availability of
Visual Studio Dev Essentials, a new free program designed to
provide any developer with everything needed to create applications
on any device or operating system, using their technology of
choice. The program provides easy access to popular Microsoft
developer services, tools and resources as well as several new
benefits to help developers get started building apps. Visual
Studio Dev Essentials benefits will include access to Visual Studio
Community, Visual Studio Code and new Visual Studio Team Services;
priority forums support; Parallels Desktop for Mac; training from
Pluralsight, Wintellect and Xamarin; a $25 monthly Azure credit coming early next
calendar year; and more. Details are available at
http://www.visualstudio.com.
Making it even easier to access Microsoft's developer tools, the
company on Wednesday also introduced Visual Studio cloud
subscriptions, which offer Visual Studio Professional and Visual
Studio Enterprise on a monthly or annual basis through a new Visual
Studio Marketplace. The new marketplace provides a central location
for developers to find and install components that extend the
Microsoft development platform.
Microsoft showed that it continues to bring innovation to Visual
Studio developers with a first look at the next version of Visual
Studio.
The company also announced the general availability of
the Microsoft Graph, offering developers a consistent way to
access data, intelligence and APIs within the Microsoft cloud and
with a single authorization token. With the Microsoft Graph,
developers can tap into the collective power of the Microsoft cloud
to create smart, people-centric applications that help companies
and end users achieve more with contextual insights. Any developer
capable of making an HTTP request can call the API from any
platform. The Microsoft Graph is hosted at
http://graph.microsoft.com.
Also now available is Azure Service Fabric in public
preview, making it easy for developers to build and operate
microservice-based applications at scale that fully integrate with
Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio. The preview includes support for
.NET development on Windows Server, with Linux support expected in
2016.
Providing a developer platform that is open by design
Microsoft's developer platform is open by design, allowing
developers to target any device and platform, including iOS,
Android, Linux and Windows. The company on Wednesday released new
versions of popular tools that further enable developers to quickly
create innovative apps and services.
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code beta as an open source
project, available on GitHub. Visual Studio Code is an advanced
code editor and part of the Visual Studio family that runs on
Linux, OS X and Windows, and has been already downloaded more than
1 million times in preview. The new beta version includes a new
extension model with a gallery of extensions for additional
features, themes and language support. Developers can learn more at
http://www.visualstudio.com.
The company also delivered release candidates (RC) of .NET Core
5 and ASP.NET 5 for Linux, Windows and OS X. With this
implementation of the .NET Core for any operating system,
developers can start using it in production environments.
Comprehensive tools for team development
Microsoft has been a pioneer in empowering enterprise
development teams with tools for agile and DevOps practices
including Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online. The
company today introduced Visual Studio Team Services, an
enhanced and rebranded version of the Visual Studio Online service
with 3.6 million existing registered users. Microsoft demonstrated
the extensible architecture of Visual Studio Team Services by
showing a broad catalog of partner extensions available in the new
Visual Studio Marketplace, as well as Microsoft's own
extensions.
Microsoft also extended its DevOps solutions into more mobile
development scenarios for Windows, Android and iOS. This includes
the ability to host cloud builds for mobile applications with
cross-platform build capabilities for iOS (in partnership with
MacinCloud) and Android. The addition of HockeyApp to the Microsoft
DevOps solution will now enable mobile apps beta testing, user
feedback and crash analytics in the DevOps cycle.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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