Live streaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4OwK0mGWo

Any developers (Windows or otherwise) should be watching this morning

11/12/2014 10:30:10 AM

http://www.visualstudio.com/
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-makes-visual-studio-free-for-small-teams/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

(Basically, Visual Studio is now free )

11/12/2014 10:34:31 AM

And Microsoft just open-sourced all of .NET

Everything. Compilers, runtimes, libraries, APIs and frameworks.

This means having an official distribution runtime for Linux and MacOS in addition to Windows.

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/

[Edited on November 12, 2014 at 10:39 AM. Reason : woot]

11/12/2014 10:38:52 AM

Visual Studio Android Emulator for Android Development in VS

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/11/12/introducing-visual-studio-s-emulator-for-android.aspx

11/12/2014 10:40:16 AM

Been looking for a better Android emulator for my Windows laptop.

11/12/2014 10:43:26 AM

this better mean oem version of windows for ARM

11/12/2014 11:17:24 AM

^Huh? Android emulator is based on AOSP, aka Android x86

11/12/2014 11:23:02 AM

awesome! thanks for the heads up!

11/12/2014 12:25:14 PM

This is interesting, they need to bring CodeSense to Mac too, or have a cross compiler for VS...

11/12/2014 12:58:09 PM

^ For now, https://github.com/OmniSharp is your friend. Intellisense plugins for .NET for basically every editor out there.

11/12/2014 1:48:04 PM

Open source .NET is a pretty big deal. It wasn't totally surprising to me, but it opens a lot of doors. Folks that wouldn't have touched it due to cost or platform availability may now be interested.

A full-featured free version of Visual Studio is also major - it means you can use extensions (like Resharper) with a free version of Visual Studio. Prior to the community version of VS, having a licensed version meant throwing down at least several hundred dollars, which just isn't appealing for hobbyists or startups.

11/12/2014 6:34:10 PM

So how does GUI stuff work if you're doing cross platform development? I don't imagine they're doing Winforms on Linux...

11/12/2014 9:08:24 PM

very fucking badass that they open-sourced .NET

11/13/2014 2:16:24 AM

^^ Cross Platform development in VS is done with Apache Cordova (basically HTML5 and JS calling native libraries on each platform)... unless you use Xamarin.

In case you meant your statement in regards to .NET on Linux & Mac... it doesn't apply. only .NET Core is being ported at the moment (basically the lean server stack). Apparently Mono is being forked and will now have direct input from Microsoft.

11/14/2014 12:36:11 AM

Quote :

"Open source .NET is a pretty big deal. It wasn't totally surprising to me, but it opens a lot of doors. Folks that wouldn't have touched it due to cost or platform availability may now be interested"

it is very interesting though how many comments i've seen on the internet are still just like "Microsoft sucks I'll never trust them" at least it makes it easy to know who is worth engaging with in meaningful conversation about technology

see also: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

11/14/2014 2:33:01 PM