January 30th, 2013

Microsoft Announces Git Support For Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server And Service

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Microsoft just made a major announcement that will likely take many developers by surprise. At the ALM Summit in Redmond, WA this morning, Microsoft Brian Harry just announced that its Team Foundation Server and hosted Team Foundation Service (TFS), as well as the complete Visual Studio 2012 suite (through a plugin the company is releasing today) will offer support for Git, the increasingly… → Read More

October 22nd, 2012

Icenium Cloud For Mobile App Development Seeks To Replace Visual Studio and Eclipse

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Telerik has developed a service called Icenium to automate the otherwise tedious task of using traditional integrated development environments (IDE) for mobile app development. → Read More

April 19th, 2010

Microsoft supports niche F# language in Visual Studio 2010

There are so many programming languages that I can’t keep track of them all any more. Presumably each has specific strengths and weaknesses, but I couldn’t tell you what those are, nor under which circumstances any particular language is the best one for the job. Lots of people are still using Fortran, for example, which I was led to believe was as dead as the Dodo. Given the mind-boggling number… → Read More