Microsoft's tutorials also assist participants setting up a development environment with Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code editor, as well as installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime.

If Microsoft made JavaScript a foundational scripting language for the entire Windows platform, it would be a valuable tool for users and developers alike (and developers wouldn’t have to feel ...

Microsoft is launching a preview of a new programming language known as TypeScript, which aims to make JavaScript development scale beyond the client. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...

Microsoft describes ChakraCore as a fully fledged, self-contained JavaScript virtual machine that can be embedded in derivative products and power applications that need “scriptability” such ...

Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its ChakraCore JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser. The company initially laid out its plans to open-source the technology last month in a ...

Microsoft has made TypeScript 1.8 available and is hoping to entice developers to migrate their JavaScript projects. In version 1.8, .js JavaScript files now can output to .tsc, accessing the ...

Microsoft first released this library in 2011 so developers could build Windows applications both for Windows Phone and the Windows 8 Modern interfaces using JavaScript, along with HTML, CSS and ...

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TypeScript, the JavaScript-based language that Microsoft devised to make developing large Web applications easier, reached its version 2.0 milestone today.

Microsoft announced that it's reached an agreement to acquire npm. npm has a massive repository of over 1.3 million packages. Now, Microsoft can help grow the JavaScript ecosystem and ...

Now, Microsoft released another tool in the augmented reality developer’s kit with HoloJS, a way to create UWP apps supporting HoloLens using JavaScript and WebGL, MSPoweruser reports.