Microsoft expands GitHub integration with Visual Studio

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Published onJuly 7, 2015

published onJuly 7, 2015

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Last week,Microsoft announcedthe upcoming July 20th release date of Visual Studio 2015, which is set to be one of the more ambitious releases of Microsoft’s integrated development environment. This latest edition will introduce support for new platforms, spanning from iOS and Android platforms, to game development through support for Unity, Unreal, and Cocos, and more.

The Visual Studio Engineering Team alsoannounced todaythat Visual Studio 2015 will support sharing open source extensions hosted on GitHub within Visual Studio Gallery.

GitHub, the popular web-based Git repository hosting service, hosts millions of open source extensions used in software development. With the newly announced support for sharing open source extensions in Visual Studio Gallery, authors will be able to easily share their Github hosted extensions with others and gain more outlets for feedback and collaboration.

Robin Liu, Program Manager of Visual Studio China, says this is just one of the first steps in improving open source extensions in Visual Studio Gallery. Some of the other projects the Visual Studio team is planning are:

This latest news adds to the narrative of how Microsoft is following a more open path to meet developers, as well as customers, where they are at, as promised at bothBuildandIgniteconferences earlier this year. Given this trend in Microsoft news, the technology company will most likely continue to announce previously unanticipated support for cross platform development in hopes to gain momentum among developers as Windows 10 and universal apps launch later this month.

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