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Microsoft Moves Visual Studio Towards The Cloud

Source: TechCrunch

Oct 19, 2009

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Microsoft is making a significant announcement for developers today, upgrading and adding functionality to Visual Studio 2010 to make the product more cloud-friendly in anticipation of Microsoft’s release of commercial cloud platform Azure. Visual Studio is Microsoft’s a development environment that can be used to develop web applications, sites and services based on Microsoft’s platforms.

Visual Studio 2010 will have additional testing options for developers to will ensure quality code. And Microsoft has included built-in tools for Windows 7 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and new drag and drop bindings for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. This is the first time that Microsoft has offered specific tools for building applications off of SharePoint. And with Visual Studio, developers can also build applications that cut across both Microsoft’s cloud computing platform Azure and on-premises databases.

Microsoft is making it much easier for developers to build on the Azure cloud with these new tools. The Windows Azure specific tools for Visual Stu

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