Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year.

WinJS JavaScript toolbox focuses on 'universal experiences' for Windows 10, while Visual Studio will get Enterprise, Professional, and Community editions Microsoft is making more accommodations ...

Tooling The two most popular Visual Studio integrated tools for JavaScript unit testing are ReSharper and Chutzpah (a Yiddish word about having the audacity to say things as they are -- good or bad).

As promised in February, Microsoft embraced the wildly popular React JavaScript library in Visual Studio 2015 by providing built-in support for its JSX syntax. So I took it for a spin. It works.

Learn More. Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 (2013.2) Community Technology Preview (CTP) 2 and Team Foundation Server 2013 Release Candidate (RC).

Of all these characteristics, it's JavaScript's lack of type safety coupled with not having a compiler fail in the capacity to verify intent. That is, of course, if you don't have unit tests. Unit ...