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Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included)

Posted by timothy on from the exigent-realities dept.

Billly Gates (198444) writes "What would be unthinkable a decade ago is Visual Studio supporting W3C HTML and CSS and now apps on other platforms. Visual Studio 2015 preview is available for download which includes support for LLVM/Clang, Android development, and even Linux development with Mono using Xamarin. A little more detail is here. A tester also found support for Java, ANT, SQL LITE, and WebSocket4web. We see IE improving in terms of more standards and Visual Studio Online even supports IOS and MacOSX development. Is this a new Microsoft emerging? In any case it is nice to have an alternative to Google tools for Android development."

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  1. Embrace has started by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone notice an old strategy revived??

    1. Re:Embrace has started by serviscope_minor · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Folks I think Google is who we should fear next. Chrome has a lot of -webkit and -blink specific stuff in CSS not in HTML 5. I am not a pro MS troll at all but use to be an anti MS zealot many moons ago but changed.

      MS may be down but they're not out for the count. They somehow managed to get their awful, but heavily patented exFAT filesystem baked into the SDC standard to the extent that some compliant controllers won't even let you format the card as anything else.

      It's appaling behaviour and shows the old microsoft is still up to their old tricks.

      The thing is there was already an ISO standard filesystem supporting modern features supported read and write by every single major operating system (XP and can read but not write without extra drivers) and a host of minor ones at all.

      I format my USB devices UDF now because they work r/w on Windows, Mac and Linux and supports large files and so on.

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      SJW n. One who posts facts.
  2. The only way MS gets more apps in their store by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only way MS gets more apps in their store is by getting developers to write apps for Windows and Android at the same time.

    1. Re: The only way MS gets more apps in their store by tom229 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Also, hopefully MS has realized - like Google does - that the future isn't in software licensing. The future is in electronic distribution, and software services that collect information. It's not a great future, but it has been created by a population that is willing to trade their privacy for free stuff. It is what it is. I wouldn't be surprised to see them start to give Windows away in the future.

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      If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
    2. Re: The only way MS gets more apps in their store by Eponymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      That's not Apple's model and Apple is making lots of money too. There's room for more than one model I think.

  3. Re:Eclipse is doomed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So I've determined several things based on your comment:

    1. You use some Fedora-derived Linux distribution. That's kinda dumb, since they all pretty much suck.

    2. Your "app-get" mistake shows you've never used a Debian-based distro. It should be "apt-get", obviously.

    3. The operating system you're using is crippled, since it can't run Visual Studio. Windows can run both Visual Studio and Eclipse, so it's clearly your operating system that's lacking in this case.

    4. Your attempt at being cocky has backfired on you, and has actually made you look like somewhat of a dickhead.

  4. Re:We all dance in the streets by phantomfive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Visual Studio + C# is fine as a development environment. Which is to say, it's not crappier than anything else.

    The worrying thing is that Microsoft hasn't changed (they're still a corporation trying to make money, let's be honest), and they'll regain the dominance they once had. If you can't remember why that's a problem, here is a refresher.

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  5. Better support than they have for Web? by Tony+Isaac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft is better at creating IDEs than just about anybody else for desktop applications. But when it comes to Web development. It was only the last version or two when they finally stopped creating mismatched HTML tags, and the Web page designer is still so unusable that you have to hand-code HTML / JavaScript for anything non-trivial. Maybe these problems have to do with Microsoft not owning the Web platform.

    I hope they do a better job with Android. I really want them to do better, because I really hate Eclipse and Java!