Somasegar's blog
Team Foundation Server 2015 Now Available
Today, we are making available the final release of Team Foundation Server 2015. Team Foundation...
Date: 08/06/2015
Building Apps for Windows 10 with Visual Studio 2015
Today is an exciting day for Windows users and developers alike with the launch of Windows 10. For...
Date: 07/29/2015
Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 Available for Download
Today, I am excited to announce that Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6 are available for download!...
Date: 07/20/2015
Save the Date: Visual Studio 2015 RTM on July 20th
Today, I’m happy to share that the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET Framework 4.6...
Date: 06/29/2015
Introducing Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2015 RC, Application Insights Public Preview and .NET Core Preview for Linux and Mac
Developers targeting today’s mobile and cloud platforms require greater levels of choice than...
Date: 04/29/2015
Visual Studio for Game Development: New Partnerships with Unity, Unreal Engine and Cocos2d
Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide...
Date: 04/17/2015
Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview
Update: The final release of Visual Studio 2015 and Tools for Universal Windows apps is now...
Date: 03/23/2015
Application Insights, Visual Studio Online and Azure Tools for Java Developers
Today more than ever, the tools and services we are building are targeting a broad array of...
Date: 03/12/2015
TypeScript <3 Angular
Three years ago, we introduced TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript for application...
Date: 03/05/2015
Microsoft + GitHub: Free Tools for Student Developers
When we launched the new Visual Studio Community 2013 edition last year, we talked about students...
Date: 01/12/2015
Microsoft acquires HockeyApp, leading mobile crash analytics and beta distribution service for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone
As mobile, cloud, and DevOps continue to transform the application development landscape, we are...
Date: 12/11/2014
Opening up Visual Studio and .NET to Every Developer, Any Application: .NET Server Core open source and cross platform, Visual Studio Community 2013 and preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015
Visual Studio and .NET have been two bedrocks of the Microsoft developer ecosystem for over a...
Date: 11/12/2014
Chance to Connect(); on What’s Coming Next, November 12th and 13th
On November 12th, we'll be hosting an online developer event called Connect();. Connect(); will be a...
Date: 10/16/2014
Visual Studio Online - Stakeholder License
As more and more developer scenarios extend from the desktop to the cloud, we announced last year a...
Date: 08/27/2014
Visual Studio 2013 Update 3, Azure SDK 2.4, Windows Phone 8.1 Update and Apache Cordova Tools CTP 2
Today I am excited to announce the release of three important updates for Visual Studio developers....
Date: 08/04/2014
Project Siena Beta 3: Enabling business users to create custom apps to transform business processes
I am excited to announce the availability of the Beta3 release of Project Siena. This new release...
Date: 07/14/2014
Mobile device testing with Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server and Perfecto Mobile MobileCloud platform
Today's mobile-first development requires testing on the wide variety of devices that are in common...
Date: 07/07/2014
Microsoft acquires SyntaxTree, creator of UnityVS plugin for Visual Studio
Game developers build the apps that hundreds of millions of users play every day across a wide...
Date: 07/02/2014
Enabling Contributions to the Visual F# IDE Tools
Visual Studio offers a variety of choice for developers to use the most effective languages for...
Date: 06/30/2014
Visual Studio "14" CTP
Today, we are making available a first community technology preview of the next version of Visual...
Date: 06/03/2014
Visual Studio Online REST APIs and Service Hooks
Since we launched Visual Studio Online last November, we've seen great adoption and usage across...
Date: 05/12/2014
Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 Beta
Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 Beta Python has been a widely used programming language across...
Date: 04/10/2014
Node.js Tools for Visual Studio 1.0 Beta
Over the last few years, Node.js has become a popular JavaScript-based server-side development...
Date: 04/04/2014
The .NET Foundation and .NET Platform Innovation
.NET has been a bedrock of the Microsoft developer ecosystem ever since its initial release more...
Date: 04/03/2014
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC: Windows Phone 8.1 Tools, Shared Projects and Universal Windows Apps
Earlier today we announced the availability of the release candidate of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2....
Date: 04/02/2014
Project Siena Beta 2: Enabling business users to create apps connected to enterprise services, web and social
Three months ago, we opened up Project Siena to the public. The response from enterprise business...
Date: 03/24/2014
Open Source and Microsoft Developer Tools
Across Microsoft, we've seen a significant increase in our engagement with open source communities...
Date: 03/20/2014
New Office REST APIs and Developer Tools for Visual Studio Update
Today, along with the Office team, we are a releasing a number of significant updates for developers...
Date: 03/03/2014
Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC
Today, we have released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2, a go-live Team Foundation Server 2013...
Date: 02/25/2014
Visual Studio 2013 Update 1
This morning we made available the final version of Update 1 for Visual Studio 2013. This is a...
Date: 01/20/2014
Curah! - Curate the web and share what you know
Searching for great technical information is tough – and finding the right place to contribute...
Date: 11/20/2013
Visual Studio 2013 Launch: Announcing Visual Studio Online
Today, I’m very excited to launch Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1. I am also thrilled to...
Date: 11/13/2013
Visual Studio 2013 available for download
I’m excited to announce that the final releases of Visual Studio 2013, .NET 4.5.1, and Team...
Date: 10/17/2013
Visual Studio, Team Foundation Service and the Enterprise Cloud
This afternoon, Satya Nadella, Microsoft executive vice president for Cloud and Enterprise spoke...
Date: 10/07/2013
Announcing the Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate
I’m excited to announce the Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2013, .NET Framework 4.5.1 and...
Date: 09/09/2013
InRelease for Visual Studio 2013 Preview Now Available
Last month at TechEd 2013, we announced Microsoft’s agreement to acquire InCycle’s...
Date: 07/10/2013
C++ Conformance Roadmap
C++ has long been a mainstay of the computing industry, gaining significant adoption since it came...
Date: 06/28/2013
Business Apps, Cloud Apps, and More at Build 2013
Today is another exciting day at the Build 2013 conference in San Francisco. While I normally...
Date: 06/27/2013
TypeScript 0.9 Preview Release
Over the past few years, we’ve seen JavaScript applications for the web, on the server, and on...
Date: 06/18/2013
Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps
Since launching Visual Studio 2012, we’ve been thrilled with the customer adoption and partner...
Date: 06/03/2013
Enterprise Library 6.0
I’ve written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library has...
Date: 04/25/2013
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 Now Available
We finished the RTM release of Visual Studio 2012 in August 2012 and launched it in September. At...
Date: 04/04/2013
Now Available: Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012
As I’ve written about previously, we’ve been developing tools for building the...
Date: 03/04/2013
The Evolution of DevLabs
A little over four years ago, we created the DevLabs portal on MSDN. The idea behind this site was...
Date: 02/19/2013
Improving the Modern Application Lifecycle
This week in Redmond, Microsoft is hosting the 3rd annual ALM Summit, a gathering of Application...
Date: 01/30/2013
Visual Studio and Internationalization
Our developer customer base for Visual Studio is truly global. A significant portion of the Visual...
Date: 12/05/2012
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 Now Available!
“Firsts” excite me. This excitement isn’t about competition with others, but...
Date: 11/26/2012