Google this week announced a library of client APIs for the Microsoft .NET Framework, a developer preview for building Android apps for wearable devices and guidance on how to use management tools with the Google Compute Engine cloud service.
Microsoft announced two new open source SDKs that let Android users access Office 365 data and use SignalR for real-time Web connectivity between clients and servers.
Xamarin added support for the SAP Mobile Platform to its stable of cross-platform mobile app development tools.
Coverity this week released a new version of its namesake software development testing platform.
On Thursday Microsoft released Visual Studio 2013, which includes Team Foundation Server 2013, and .NET Framework 4.5.1.
On Wednesday Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP2).
Microsoft has reversed an earlier decision and will now give Windows Phone developers earlier access to operating system updates.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the Build Conference in San Francisco this morning with his keynote that focused on giving the public a first look at Visual Studio 2013, the new Bing development API and Windows 8.1.
Microsoft's Brian Harry announced during his TechEd keynote demo on Monday the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2013 and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013.
Developer tools and solutions provider Telerik last week released the first commercial version of Icenium.
The new uBuild tool is designed to provide developers using Java, C#, and C/C++ with a central, authoritative build framework for quality and dependency control.
Java/.NET interoperability solutions provider JNBridge LLC released JNBridgePro 7.0 with new support for the open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET Framework known as Mono.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service (TFS) will fully support and integrate with Git source control.
A new cloud-based offering from Skytap aims to aid in agile development and testing processes for Visual Studio developers.
.NET developers continue to buck the slow economy trend, according to figures from the 2013 Visual Studio Magazine Salary Survey.
In terms of growth, C# surpassed all other programming languages in a popularity contest called the PoularitY of Programming Language index, based on Google Trends data from 2012.
Xamarin Inc. this week announced a tool that lets C# developers build native Mac OS X apps.
Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, a major enhancement to the company's latest integrated development environment, which is geared towards modern development and Windows 8, was released by Microsoft on Monday.
On Friday Microsoft released the first service pack for SQL Server 2012.
Microsoft released a phone-focused version of the .NET Framework this week as well as the Windows Phone 8 SDK.