visual studio
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Three Big Things From Day One Of Microsoft Build
Build is Microsoft’s annual developer conference. It’s a busy couple of weeks for developers with Facebook running their event last week and Google has their event kicking off now as well. Microsoft has announced several new tools and services for developers today. Here’s a snapshot of some of the more interesting announcements.
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Animated GIFs Could Be The Answer To Visual Studio Code’s CPU-Heavy Cursor
You’d never suspect the humble cursor as a source of performance issues in your IDE, but that appears to be precisely the case with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform development environment built on Electron. A few days ago, a user reported the program consuming a large number of CPU cycles when idle and tracked…
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Microsoft Brings Visual Studio To The Mac (Sort Of)
Many developers prefer to use Apple Mac devices for their coding needs and up until this point, Microsoft’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) was only available on Windows. Now the company has announced that it will be releasing a preview of Visual Studio for Mac, which will run natively on macOS. The preview will launch…
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Get A Head Start With Xamarin’s Cross-Platform Tools With This Detailed Explainer
So, Xamarin is now bundled with Visual Studio and licensed in such a way that you can use it for whatever you like, but that doesn’t help the budding cross-platform developer get a handle on the “how”. If you’re looking for a head start, Microsoft has an excellent video just for you.