Right now for example I'm working on a quote to create an LOB app that has the client requirements to run it on Windows Phone, Surface Tablets, Android phones and iPhones. I understand there are IDE's that are separate but having to run 2 (or three or more) just to do one thing seems like a productivity killer.
Microsoft's ambitions for Visual Studio and the coding world in general is exciting, we'll just have to see if it pays off. The main change is Microsoft's combination of their MSDN versions - which is their in-house developer network - of Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate into Visual Studio Enterprise 2015.
But Microsoft's Azure still lags behind Amazon's Web Services, which reigns as king of the cloud computing industry.īack in March, Microsoft announced a reformed structure for Visual Studio 2015's product packaging. Visual Studio 2015 will now back popular game engines like Unreal.Īdditionally, Microsoft continues to push Azure, their cloud computing software, by improving its ease of use in Visual Studio. But Microsoft still has a way to go if it wants to woo developers away from Xcode or Google's Android Developer Studio.Īlongside Visual Studio 2015's updates for mobile development, the software is also adding support for video game coding. The adoption rates for Visual Studio 2015 as a mobile development platform should be interesting to see. The Register notes that some mobile development tools in Visual Studio come from third parties, such as Xamarin's compilers for running C# in iOS and Android or Apache Cordova, which lets you run apps made in HTML or JavaScript across platforms. Although Microsoft is still pumping resources into Windows Phone, supporting the two most popular mobile platforms is key to keeping the company's services relevant. Microsoft's attempt to win over mobile developers with Visual Studio is an obvious move to get their software products better integrated on iOS and Android. Somasegar, Microsoft's vice president of the Development Division, who announced the news, views mobile as a new platform but clearly sees the writing on the wall when it comes to Android and iOS dominating personal computing.
Visual Studio 2015 is notoriously adding new development tools for Android and iOS, revealing Microsoft's desire of catering to mobile developers who're not just developing for Windows.
NET Framework 4.6 will be distributed and there'll be an update to Team Foundation Server. Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio 2015 will be available 9 days prior to Windows 10.