Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included)

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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Download Here

[jamesl]

Visual Studio 2015 Preview Downloads
http://www.visualstudio.com/en...

The only way MS gets more apps in their store

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

We all dance in the streets

[ssufficool]

Finally Microsoft was given me a reason to install Windows on all my machines to support their glorious Visual Studio 2015. I will lock all my projects up in Team Foundations installed on Windows Server.

I use Visual Studio 2012 and TFS currently. I don't know what it is, but it seems to suck all the fun out of programming. Maybe it's just not dangerous enough. The compiler catches most everything and I can't seem to throw segfaults or hide memory leaks. I get my jollies every so often by developing for PHP in C where I am able to churn out leaky crap right along with everyone else.

Re:IDE war - it is like browser war

[Billly Gates]

I was going to prove you wrong by opening a copy of Netbeans ... it is still loading hold on.