As a result, they must be scalable and adaptable. These applications also must be able to connect with users anywhere, any time on any platform - whether that’s a PC, a phone or a wearable. “The ability to distribute this in a seamless fashion with one commit is critical.” “As we think about the complexity and handling from a mobile dev perspective you can have dozens of OS versions and thousands of form factors,” Azizirad said. It’s about performance, which is viewed as more of a feature than anything else. In terms of building the app, it’s about having a native user interface and about having high-fidelity API access, whether that’s across Android, iOS or Windows, she said. Microsoft is redesigning Visual Studio to give developers more time to write code and spend less time worrying about how the application is built, delivered, and maintained.
Microsoft recently delivered the latest update to its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) - Visual Studio 2017, bringing with it a number of productivity, performance and coding enhancements.Īmong the most salient new piece of the Visual Studio 2017 story is the company’s focus improving DevOps for enterprise IT environments, allowing enterprise developers to build what Microsoft calls “Five-Star apps.”įive-Star applications are, in essence, enterprise-grade apps that have the polished look and feel of the best consumer applications that people are used to using in their everyday lives, explained Mitra Azizirad, corporate vice president of cloud application development and data marketing at Microsoft.