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  • Rust in Visual Studio and VS Code

    Daniel Griffen has released a preview version of a Rust language service for Visual Studio. This plugin requires Visual Studio 2017 Preview, an experimental release stream for testing new VS features.

  • Language Server Protocol Support for Visual Studio

    Like Visual Studio Code and a variety of editors, Visual Studio is adding support for the Language Server Protocol. This will allow new programming languages to be added to Visual Studio with a fraction of the effort currently required.

  • Spring Tool Suite 3.9.1 Released

    Pivotal recently released version 3.9.1 of its Spring Tool Suite (STS), the Eclipse-based IDE for developing applications in Spring Framework. STS has been updated to Eclipse Oxygen.1a, which includes support for JDK 9 and JUnit 5 out of the box.

  • IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2: Smarter, Neater, and Faster

    JetBrains recently released IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2, the quarterly release of its flagship Java IDE. Trisha Gee’s blog post about this release notes that there are many usability enhancements; new classes of warning like if you are creating empty collections or Strings or if a number is out of range on an array. It also has improved analysis around nulls.

  • Build 2017 Day 1 Keynote Recap

    Microsoft's Build 2017 developer conference began today with an informative and wide-ranging presentation of new technologies for the artificial intelligence, Azure and the cloud, and developer tools. InfoQ was there to provide a running summary and key takeaways.

  • NuGet is Now Part of MSBuild

    After experimenting with a json-based project format, Microsoft has returned to MSBuild as the foundation for C# and VB project files. Along with that decision came the promise to implement many of the much-liked project.json features. Today we’re going to talk about one of these features, NuGet integration.

  • WebStorm 2017.1 Adds Vue.js Support

    WebStorm 2017.1 keeps the IDE topped off with the latest JavaScript features including support for Vue.js, Jest, Angular Language Service, StandardJS and emojis.

  • Microsoft to Offer Live Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2017

    With more features being pushed down into less expensive versions, Microsoft is always looking for ways to justify the hefty price tag for Visual Studio Enterprise Edition. New for this year, the headline feature is “live unit testing”.

  • Microsoft Open Sources Visual Studio Test

    Microsoft has open sourced their Visual Studio Test Platform (VS Test) used to run tests in many languages, collect diagnostic data and report the results.

  • Visual Studio Marketplace (mostly) Replaces VS Gallery

    Visual Studio has a new website for extensions. Known as Visual Studio Marketplace, this site aggregates extensions for the Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio Team Services.

  • JetBrains Rider: A New .NET IDE Based on IntelliJ and ReSharper

    JetBrains Rider was introduced in January of this year but spent the most part of the year in private Early Access Preview, not yet ready for the public. Now the EAP has been made available to everyone who wants to see what it is like to develop for .NET on the IntelliJ platform. There are some issues to be fixed before it becomes generally available but the tool is quite stable.

  • Microsoft to Announce Visual Studio for Mac

    The MSDN Blog briefly published a post on Visual Studio for Mac, then they took it down because the new product is supposed to be announced at Microsoft Connect(), which is to take place from Nov 16-18, 2016. A copy of the page can be accessed on Google’s cache.

  • VS Code Breaks NPM Registry

    Microsoft has launched VS Code 1.7.1, after breaking NPM registry with its 1.7 release. Project manager Wade Anderson said VS Code's Automatic Type Acquisition unintentionally flooded npm with requests for non-existent packages.

  • Ceylon 1.3 Adds Support for Building Android Apps and More

    Ceylon, RedHat’s strongly statically typed language for the JVM, has reached version 1.3. Released one year after version 1.2, Ceylon 1.3 is a major release bringing Android support, npm integration, and a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, in addition to new language features and improvements.

  • JetBrains Ships WebStorm 2016.2, Adds More TypeScript and React Support

    JetBrains has released WebStorm 2016.2, their second major update for the IDE this year. New in this version is support for TypeScript 2.0, enhanced React support, and integration with the new Angular CLI tool.

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