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Kamis, 31 Maret 2016

Xamarin is now free for all and comes with Visual Studio 2015 Update 2


Back n February, Microsoft announced that they will be acquiring Xamarin, the company that makes the popular cross platform development tool for Visual Studio. This new doesn't come as much of a surprise as Xamarin has been working closely with Microsoft's Visual Studio team in the past. Fast forward to the second day of Build 2016 and while Microsoft did briefly tease Xamarin up on stage yesterday, today the company is officially announcing that Xamarin will now be included with Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE (starting with VS2015 update 2 which was announced yesterday)


Before today's announcement, a Xamarin license has varying costs depending on the business size but today, Microsoft announces that the Xamarin plugin is now available to everyone for free. This free version of Xamarin will work with all version of Visual Studio ranging from the free VS Community edition all the way to VS Professional with MSDN.

Beyond making Xamarin free, Microsoft also announced that they will be open sourcing the Xamarin runtime and they also shared plans to develop an iOS Emulator that will work on Windows 10. Download the latest Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 here
Rabu, 30 Maret 2016

Microsoft's new Bot Framework brings AI to the masses


Microsoft announced quite a number of new things during this morning's opening keynote for Build 2016 but it seems that the one they were focusing heavily on is with the new Bot Framework that uses the power of Microsoft's cloud computing to make AI more accessible to applications that we frequently use today. In case you don't know what this Bot framework is all about, it's basically just like Microsoft's chatbot, Tay which was released last week and pulled out subsequently because it went rogue.

Likewise, Microsoft's Bot Framework is designed for rich interaction inside of messaging applications and bots created through Microsoft's tools will work on services like Slack, Email, Skype, or any other web application. This service is basically similar to those automated bots that existed before but Microsoft's Bot framework does the heavy lifting when it comes to the artificial intelligence part.

Expect to see more services supporting Microsoft's Bot framework in the near future. If you're a developer or just a little curios, learn more about this new tool here

Windows 10 will soon come with a native Bash Shell


In additon to announcing a brand new version of Windows 10 coming later this Summer and a new HoloLens demo, Microsoft also took the time to please developers. In addition to the cross platform development tools that are currently available, Microsoft is adding yet another well requested dev tool to Windows 10. In the future version of Windows 10, the Bash (Bourne Again Shell) will be available natively on Windows 10.

The shell which was a popular tool on Linux on the Mac in the past enables developers to easily write their .sh Bash scripts. Microsoft says they have worked closely with Canonical on this integration with the Bash shell on Windows 10. With yet another dev tool available on Windows 10, Microsoft is continuing to please Windows developers.

Oh yeah, there's also a new version of Visual Studio 2015 (update 2) available starting today that includes the new SDK for the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update


Windows 10's first major update is called the Anniversary update is coming this Summer


This morning during the opening keynote for Microsoft's 2016 BUILD developer conference, Terry Myerson took the time to announce that there is not over 270 million Windows 10 users and also introduced an upcoming Windows 10 update which have previously been referred as 'redstone'. Called the Windows 10 Anniversary update, the new version of Windows 10 will be coming to users later this Summer, presumably by the time Windows 10's first anniversary hits.


As expected, this upcoming update will slowly trickling out to users in the Windows Insider program in the coming weeks. As for the actual features that will be bundled with this new Anniversary update, the list currently includes things like support for biometric security through select applications on Microsoft Edge, improved inking (Windows Ink) improvements with some visual tweaks and updated support for UWP apps. Just as before, this list will most likely grow as the weeks go by.

Microsoft says that the Windows 10 anniversary update will be rolling out to all Windows 10 PCs in the Summer and the update will be free to all Windows 10 users. While these features are only related to Windows 10 on the PC, expect to hear more details about the Windows 10 Anniversary update for other Windows devices like the XBOX and Mobile.