Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year.

WinJS JavaScript toolbox focuses on 'universal experiences' for Windows 10, while Visual Studio will get Enterprise, Professional, and Community editions Microsoft is making more accommodations ...

Of all these characteristics, it's JavaScript's lack of type safety coupled with not having a compiler fail in the capacity to verify intent. That is, of course, if you don't have unit tests. Unit ...

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

With 14 million users, Microsoft's open source cross-platform code editor Visual Studio Code is one of its key tools for keeping developers engaged with its future in the cloud.

Learn More. Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (2013.2) Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Release Candidate (RC).

JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge.