Once devoted chiefly to developing desktop and server Windows applications, the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) is increasingly resembling a Swiss Army Knife, able to support myriad computing platforms, languages and runtime environments.
Visual Studio 2015, released Monday, provides a way for a developer to write a single application to run across multiple Windows platforms, such as mobile, desktop and even Microsoft’s experimental HoloLens environment. It even provides a way to build applications that don’t run on Windows computers at all, but instead run on iOS devices or as Web applications in the cloud.
The update also comes with hundreds of new features, many focusing on debugging, diagnostics, code editing and refactoring.
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