Team Foundation Server 2015 Released
Microsoft announced the release of the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015 today which includes numerous improvements in Agile Project Management, a brand new build system, Git support enhancements, and extensibility. While there are literally dozens of major and minor enhancements, here’s a quick highlight of some of the best. Agile Project Management: The…
Windows 10: Did It Live Up To The Hype?
After a week of automatic and manual upgrades, Windows 10 reached 14 million users in just the first 24 hours with estimates a week later pushing 20 million users. The price (FREE) and the automatic nature of the upgrades certainly played a part in making Windows 10 a hit out of the gate. But now…
Wintellect Becomes Premier Xamarin Consulting Partner
It seems that all roads in software development today lead inevitably to mobile apps. Building apps that span multiple mobile platforms is no easy task, but Xamarin makes bridging those environments much easier. And so it’s with great pleasure we announce that Wintellect has become a Premier Xamarin Consulting Partner. Wintellect employs a dedicated team…
JIT Compiler Bug in .Net 4.6 Discovered
Of course no software is ever released without bugs, and the .Net Framework is no exception. With .Net 4.6, Microsoft has moved to using a new JIT compiler called RyuJIT that is specifically designed for use with 64-bit systems. However, Nick Craver at StackOverflow has found that this new JIT compiler has a significant bug…
TypeScript 1.5 Released with More ECMAScript 6 Features
Microsoft has officially released the latest iteration of TypeScript, version 1.5 which includes more support for ES6 features such as modules, destructuring, computed properties, and tagged string templates. In the above table, you can see our progress on the Kangax ES6 support table. This table, originally for JS engines, also shows coverage of the features…
ASP.Net 5 Roadmap Shows A Long Road Ahead
While Microsoft released Visual Studio 2015 and .Net 4.6 earlier this week, it did not include the upcoming version 5 of ASP.Net, an open source and cross platform framework for building next generation web applications in .NET. Microsoft did however release a roadmap which includes estimated dates for the next series of Beta milestones (currently…
Build an Angular 2 App – Data Binding Syntax
In our previous article about building a simple application in Angular 2, we laid the foundation for moving forward and covered all the very basics about bootstrapping your application. However, it’s more or less a hello world application, and that, has been done already a number of ways. The goal is to build a small…
Visual Studio 2015 Released
Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2015 today including many features for developers working outside of the Windows platform. This release is one of the biggest advances in the Visual Studio platform and also includes .Net 4.6. Microsoft is celebrating the release of Visual Studio 2015 with an online virtual event including more than 60 on-demand…
Build an Angular 2 App: The Root Component
Build an Angular 2 App: The Root Component Angular 2 is in active development right now, but is still in an alpha state. In fact, at the time of writing this article, the alpha 31 release was just cut. There are a lot of things in flux, but the platform has enough meat on it…
Microsoft Quietly Slips Out Windows 10 RTM Release
Microsoft isn’t exactly known for it’s subtlety but this week’s release of Build 10240 of Windows 10 could be an exception. While Microsoft hasn’t yet made the announcement, all indications are that Build 10240 is in fact the RTM version of Windows 10 which would be used by manufacturers to preload Windows 10 in time…