Editor's Note - Building on Connect();
The Visual Studio 2015 and Microsoft Azure special issue of MSDN Magazine offers a glimpse at the broad and deep innovation unveiled at the Microsoft Connect(); event in New York City.
Cross-Platform - Write Cross-Platform Hybrid Apps in Visual Studio with Apache Cordova
Explore the cross-platform capabilities of Apache Cordova by building a simple selfie app that captures a camera image from a mobile device and shares it along with an editable location string to a social network of the user’s choosing.
Cross-Platform - Cross-Platform Game Development with Visual Studio Tools for Unity
Microsoft made a great investment in the game development community with Visual Studio Tools for Unity. Learn about what it is, how to use it, and some great new features arriving for Visual Studio.
Visual Studio 2013 - Expand Visual Studio 2013 with Extensions
Visual Studio Community 2013 opens up the world of Visual Studio Extensions to students, hobbyists, and others looking to harness the power of the Visual Studio IDE. Learn how to create a menu extension for the IDE and master the key points for developing extensions with the Visual Studio SDK.
Azure SDK 2.5 - Azure SDK 2.5 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 Overview
From QuickStart templates to speed project development to new tools for working with big data in HDInsight, this overview of the new capabilities in Azure SDK 2.5 for .NET will help developers get up to speed.
Microsoft Azure - Push Notifications to Cordova Apps with Microsoft Azure
Learn how Visual Studio makes it easy to send cross-platform push notifications to your Cordova app users with Microsoft Azure services.
ASP.NET 5 - Introducing the ASP.NET 5 Preview
ASP.NET 5 has been rebuilt from the ground up to support building modern Web applications and services with faster development, cross-platform support, cloud features and much more.
C# - How C# 6.0 Simplifies, Clarifies and Condenses Your Code
Mark Michaelis delves into the details of the new C# 6.0 feature set that remove some of the ceremony and make it easier to focus on business logic.
C# and Visual Basic : Use Roslyn to Write a Live Code Analyzer for Your API
Can the .NET Compiler Platform change what it means to write a Microsoft .NET Framework API? Learn about diagnostic analyzers, a key new feature of Visual Studio 2015 that lets a NuGet package introduce custom warnings and errors to your build.
C++ : Visual C++ 2015 Brings Modern C++ to the Windows API
Kenny Kerr shows you how to implement IUnknown and IInspectable entirely in modern C++, without any language extensions, interface tables, or other macros.
Last Word : Connect(); the Past to the Future
It's been years in the making, but MSDN Magazine Director Keith Boyd says that Microsoft has made the transformation from PC and server software company to a true cloud-first, mobile-first innovator.
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