Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing. As I detailed in my recent article "A TypeScript Primer," ...

An introduction to the Chakra JavaScript engine and how it can be used within a Windows 10 app to execute JavaScript. Initially, the concept of executing JavaScript within a Universal Windows Platform ...

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.

Node.js Tools for Visual Studio helps out programmers using Windows to create their Node app (Microsoft) Node.js Tools for Visual Studio is a powerful VS extension that allows developers to write ...

With NTVS (Node.js Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio) released Wednesday, Microsoft is enabling its Windows software development platform for use as a Node.js IDE. NTVS is a free, open source extension for ...

With the third preview of Microsoft’s planned 64-bit Visual Studio 2022 IDE, the company is emphasizing a new JavaScript/TypeScript experience as well as multi-repo support. The multi-repo capability ...

As the company continues to court programmers developing on software stacks that aren’t its own, Microsoft has released a plugin for Visual Studio that provides extensive support for Node.js within ...

In this 5-10 minute introduction to the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), we take a tour of some of the windows, menus, and other UI features. If you haven't installed Visual ...

Node.js has quickly become one of the most popular platforms for writing server-side code. Windows, however, was never quite the right operating system to develop node.js applications on. That may be ...