Welcome to the Developer Tools Virtual Presskit. Here you’ll find the most current news, videos, product screenshots, top stories and resources for Microsoft’s suite of developer tools and programming languages.

April 4, 2013
New features give development teams more options for agile planning and give developers additional capabilities for building modern apps.
Highlights
Download Office developer tools for Visual Studio 2012
March 4
Create and deploy apps across all current Office and SharePoint hosting models and app types.
Microsoft announces ALM updates
Jan. 30
Technical Fellow Brian Harry introduced Git support for Team Foundation Service and Visual Studio.
Enter the world of cross-platform gaming
Jan. 30
Can your users play on a phone and then resume later on Windows 8 or Xbox 360?
Try F#: Web-based console for big and broad data
Jan. 22
New website makes programming language easy to learn, simple to use and share.
Register now for 2013 Security Development Conference
Dec. 18
Join the event in San Francisco, May 14–15. Hear from security experts and learn about secure development practices.
Windows Phone 7.8 SDK is here
Jan. 22
Take advantage of new features for WP 7.x devices.

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Announcing the Release of WebMatrix 3

May 1, 2013

I’m excited to announce the release of WebMatrix 3. WebMatrix is a free, lightweight web development tool we first introduced in 2010, and which provides a...

Announcing the release of Windows Azure SDK 2.0 for .NET

April 30, 2013

This morning we released the v2.0 update of the Windows Azure SDK for .NET. This is a major refresh of the Windows Azure SDK with some really great new...

Windows Azure: Improvements to Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and a new Ruby SDK

April 26, 2013

This morning we released some great enhancements to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Virtual Networks: New Point-to-Site Connectivity (very...

Enterprise Library 6.0

April 25, 2013

I’ve written on my blog before about the Microsoft Enterprise Library. Enterprise Library has a long and accomplished history of providing architectural...